Race riots -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Anti-slavery and Atlanta Race Massacre newspapers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS972f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an Italian newspaper, La Tribuna, and a French newspaper, Le Petit Journal, published on October 7, 1906, that feature front page color prints and articles about the Atlanta Race Massacre which occurred on September 22-24, 1906. There is also an article that The Independent, an African American weekly newspaper from Atlanta, Georgia, published on October 11, 1906. It...
Dates:
1851, 1906
Herbert T. Jenkins papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS546
Scope and Contents
This collection documents Herbert T. Jenkins' career as the longest-serving police chief of Atlanta. Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, committee minutes, speeches, publications, and annual reports of the Atlanta Police Department and Fulton County Police Department. In addition, there are speeches, attendance reports, and planning materials related to Jenkins' participation in conferences as an attendee and speaker. Of particular note are documents pertaining to his work...
Dates:
1800-1983, undated
WRFG records of the Living Atlanta oral history project
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection consists of tape recorded interviews of Atlantans used to create fifty programs titledLiving Atlanta: Atlanta Life from World War I through World War II, and the programs themselves, which aired on WRFG Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. The programs were composed of excerpts from the interviews connected by music and explanatory narration. During the course of the project, hundreds of Atlantans were interviewed, resulting in approximately...
Dates:
1977-1980, undated