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Effie Ward letters to Josephine Heyman

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Collection number: ahc.MSS969f
Scope and Contents This collection contains two letters from Effie Ward to Josephine Heyman (1901-1993), the president of the DeKalb County League of Women Voters. In the first letter, Ward expresses her gratitude to the League for promoting equal education and services for Black children and briefly comments on the welfare of the Black community. She also offers to sew a dress for Heyman’s daughter. In the second letter, Ward writes about social conditions and challenges facing Atlanta’s Black community from...
Dates: 1946 February

Long, Rucker, and Aiken family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS468
Scope and Content The collection contains papers from the political, civic, educational, professional, family, and social lives of the Long, Rucker, and Aiken families, prominent African American families in Atlanta, Georgia. There are documents from Jefferson Long's congretional career. From Henry Rucker and the Rucker family there is documentation of their social life, businesses, family finances, land and estate management, court cases, and Henry Rucker’s political career in the Republican Party. Rucker...
Dates: 1810-1988, undated

Small Expectations: Adjustment to Economic Status in the Deep South lecture program by Allison Davis

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Collection number: ahc.MSS977f
Scope and Contents This collection contains a program for a lecture titled “Small Expectations: Adjustment to Economic Status in the Deep South,” which Allison Davis delivered at the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Twenty-Ninth Annual Conclave at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In the lecture, he spoke about the economic conditions and the intersection of race and class in rural Natchez, Mississippi. He also applies these findings to the South more broadly. Specifically, Davis compared the living standards...
Dates: 1940 December 29

Utopian Literary Club documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1120
Scope and Content

This collection consists of historical sketches written about the club, biographies highlighting members, and a proclamation from the Fulton County Board of Commissioners honoring the club. There are also programs for events and special projects, yearbooks documenting past club members, meeting minutes, financial reports, and meeting agendas.

Dates: 1927-2003, undated

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