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Anna Belle Watkins papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1277

Scope and Contents

This collection contains papers from Anna Watkins' career in education, her family, and her community involvement. Included are materials that document her career as a teacher such as curriculum materials. In addition there is correspondence, the bulk of which are invitations to graduations from former students. There are also publications and correspondence from universities that she, Dewey Watkins Sr., and Myron Watkins attended, including Clark College and Atlanta University (which later merged to become Clark Atlanta University), and Morehouse College. Of particular note are documents from fraternal organizations that her husband and son were members of as well as publications from Negro History Week.

Dates

  • 1923-1978, undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

Anna Belle Watkins (1905-1996) was born in Greensboro, Georgia, to Samuel Hinton Robinson (?-1931). She graduated from Clark College in 1940 and received a Normal Degree from Atlanta University and two masterss degrees in education from Columbia University. Afterward she taught social studies in the Atlanta Public School system at Samuel Archer High School and Henry McNeal Turner High School. She married Dewey Raymond Watkins Sr. (1903-1971), and they had two children: Dewey Raymond Watkins Jr. (1927-2004) and Myron (1933- ) Hinton Watkins. She was an active church member at Friendship Baptist Church and First Congregational Church U.C.C.; two of Atlanta's oldest congregations in the African American community.

Extent

1.04 linear ft. (two document cases and one half document case)

Language

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically by titles supplied by staff.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, 1995

Bias in Description

As archivists, we acknowledge our role as stewards of information. We choose how individuals and organizations are represented and described in our archives. We are not neutral, and bias is reflected in our descriptions, which may not accurately convey the racist or offensive aspects of collection materials. Archivists make mistakes and might use poor judgment. In working with this collection, we often re-use language used by the former owners of the material. This language provides context but often includes bias and prejudices reflective of the time in which it was created. The Kenan Research Center’s work is ongoing to implement reparative language where Library of Congress subject terms are inaccurate and obsolete.

Kenan Research Center welcomes feedback and questions regarding our archival descriptions. If you encounter harmful, offensive, or insensitive terminology or descriptions, please let us know by emailing reference@atlantahistorycenter.com. Your comments are essential to our work to create inclusive and thoughtful description.

Processing Information

This collection was processed in 2024.

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Anna Belle Watkins papers
Subtitle
ahc.MSS1277
Author
Doug Evans, III
Date
June 2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository

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