Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5

APPLE Corps, Inc. records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1252
Scope and Contents This collection serves as an example of a grassroots neighborhood organization which was formed to improve the quality of public schools. The collection contains records that document the founding, history, and activities of APPLE Corps, Inc. Included in the collection are administrative files, annual reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial records, presentations, and workshop materials. Publications of APPLE Corps represented in the collection include its newsletter,...
Dates: 1974-2003, undated

Atlanta Assessment Project on Atlanta Public Schools documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1182
Scope and Content This collection contains reports created by the Atlanta Assessment Project about the Atlanta Public School System. These reports outline the goals for the Atlanta Public School System, as well as how to reach these goals. The collection also contains reports on the school system for years prior to the project, as well as papers on the history of the city. Of particular note are critiques written by Atlanta residents on one of the reports that concern the economy, demographics, employment,...
Dates: 1917-1973, undated

Bazoline E. Usher papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1239
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers pertaining to Bazoline Usher’s career in Atlanta Public Schools and her community involvement. Included are two scrapbook, one that documents her retirement; and one with photos and cards from her 100th birthday celebration, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, Friendship Baptist Church event programs, and information about the Girl Scouts. Of particular note are interviews with Usher saved on cassettes and an oral history transcript from the Black...
Dates: 1921-2005, undated

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta X
  • Subject: Segregation in education -- Georgia X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Segregation in education -- Georgia 4
Public schools -- Georgia -- Atlanta 3
African Americans -- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century 2
∨ more  
Names
Atlanta Public Schools 3
H.O.P.E. Inc. (Help Our Public Education) (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
APPLE Corps, Inc. 1
Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003 1
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Black Women Oral History Project 1