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Elizabeth Harris Kester biography
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS648f
Scope and Content
This typewritten biography was written by Elizabeth Harris Kester’s daughter, Rebecca Harris Cofer, and details Kester’s involvement in the civil rights movement in Atlanta. The biography provides some insight into the spiritual and religious underpinnings of Kester’s beliefs.
Dates:
1996
Grace Towns Hamilton maps and photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS35
Scope and Content
The collection contains images of Grace Towns Hamilton, her family, special events, and other public officials. The bulk of the collection features Hamilton posed with public officials including: Governor Jimmy Carter, U.S. Congressman Andrew Young, Georgia Governor George Busbee, Coretta Scott King, Atlanta University President Benjamin E. Mays, and U.S. Congressman Julian Bond. Also included are photographs of Atlanta homes of the 1960s; African-American Navy yard workers (1940s); the...
Dates:
1882-1984, undated
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- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
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- Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-1992 1
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- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
- Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003 1
- Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984 1
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- Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 1
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