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Austin family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1230
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Eugene and Dorethia Austin’s high school diplomas and graduation programs from Buford Colored High School, a newspaper clipping about Eugene Austin speaking at Poplar Hill Baptist Church in Buford, Georgia, and a plaque honoring his induction into the United States Supreme Court as an attorney and counselor.
Dates:
1949-1976, undated
Austin T. Walden papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS614
Scope and Content
This collection consists of personal and professional papers of Austin T. Walden. The papers are primarily office files and case briefs from his law career. Additional material includes correspondence, financial papers, membership information, political campaign documents, speeches, and marketing and outreach material from various organizations. The collection contains materials from the many organizations to which Walden belonged or defended in court, such as the NAACP, the Atlanta Negro...
Dates:
1900-1969, undated
Civil Rights Movement collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS748f
Scope and Content
This collection contains fliers, pamphlets, mailouts, and statements from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia. Subjects addressed in the documents include racial relations in the south, school segregation, African-American voting, civil rights demonstrations, and memorials to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some materials in this collection pre-date the recognized beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, in 1954. Of particular note is a handbill from Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to boycot...
Dates:
1934-1991, undated
John Wesley Dobbs letter to Roy D. McClain
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS960f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter written by John Wesley Dobbs on Prince Hall Grand Lodge stationary to Rev. Roy D. McClain. In the letter, Dobbs contests McClain’s sermons that promote racial segregation and limiting African Americans' access to higher education. Dobbs uses the Bible to argue that Black's should have access to higher education not only because they are Americans, but because it would help improve the country's economy and progress. He also contends that integration is a...
Dates:
1956
O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. papers of Frances D. Green
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS374
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, memoranda, and committee reports that Frances D. Green (1910-?) collected from O.A.S.I.S. and H.O.P.E. Included in the files are O.A.S.I.S. articles of association, by-laws, handwritten meeting notes, correspondence, and membership lists. The correspondence contains a description of groups and individuals identified by H.O.P.E. as distributors of “hate-literature” opposing integration. Of particular note is a letter and...
Dates:
1955-1961, undated
Roland M. Frye papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1222
Scope and Contents
This collection contians letters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, and emphemera that document Roland Mushat Frye Sr's work integrating schools and universities in Atlanta, Georgia. The bulk of the collection focuses on his work with Help Our Public Education (HOPE) and the Southern Presbyterian Church.
Dates:
1954-2022, undated
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- H.O.P.E. Inc. (Help Our Public Education) (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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- Buford Colored High School (Buford, Ga.) 1
- Butler Street YMCA (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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- Democratic Party (Ga.) 1
- Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
- Emory University 1
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
- Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia 1
- Frye, Roland Mushat 1
- Gate City Bar Association (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Georgia Association of Citizens Democratic Club 1
- Georgia Voters League 1
- Grady High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Green, Frances D., 1910- 1
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
- Joseph E. Brown High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Knights of Pythias. Uniform Lodge (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Macy's, Inc. 1
- McClain, Roy D. 1
- Murphy High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- National Baptist Convention of the United States of America 1
- National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Sunday School Publishing Board 1
- National Bar Association 1
- National Urban League 1
- Northside High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- O.A.S.I.S. (Organizations Assisting Schools in September)(Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Southwest Bar Association 1
- United States. Congress. House 1
- Walden, A. T. (Austin Thomas) 1
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