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Description:: Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.
Date of Original:: 1972/2006
Contributing Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

Description:: Photographs taken by white journalist Boyd Lewis, who worked for two of Atlanta's African American newspapers, the Atlanta Voice and the Atlanta Inquirer between 1970 and 1982. Lewis' work depicts the rise of the African American political class, journalists, social activists, clergy, students, and Atlanta neighborhoods.
Date of Original:: 1970/1982
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Roosevelt "Bo" Richmond was an amateur photographer from Alabama. He photographed events, buildings, people, and documented the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Date of Original:: 1964/1974
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Oral history interviews and photographs dating from 1960-2020 that document the public service and civil rights work of Anthony Coleman, who represented Ward 5 on the Marietta, Georgia city council from 2001-2016 and served on the executive board of the Cobb County branch of the NAACP.
Date of Original:: 1960/2020
Contributing Institution:: Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

Description:: Content collected from 1954 to 2004 by W. W. Law, a prominent Civil Rights leader, local historian, historic preservationist and community leader in Savannah, Georgia including recordings of local news television and radio programs, concerts of local artists, interviews, oral histories, and more.
Date of Original:: 1955/2004
Contributing Institution:: City of Savannah Municipal Archives

Description:: Selected Baldy editorial cartoons from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, covering the Civil Rights movement in Georgia and the rest of the South from 1953 to 1982.
Date of Original:: 1953/1980
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Over 1000 photographs documenting the history and social life of Atlanta, Georgia from 1923 to 1964, including weddings, sports events, portraits, local buildings, companies, the Atlanta labor community, and the Shriners Yaarab Temple, from the collections of Georgia State University's Special Collections
Date of Original:: 1923/1964
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: The collection consists of letters, pictures, clippings, manuscripts, programs, printed materials, notes, file cards, and other materials concerning the life, career, and writings of the late Dr. Clarence Leonard Jordan, founder of Koinonia Farms, an agricultural missionary enterprise, and inter-racial community.
Date of Original:: 1920/1970
Contributing Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Photographs taken by the Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers that depict life in Atlanta from the 1920s to 1957.
Date of Original:: 1920/1957
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

Description:: Photographs from 1904 to 2000 documenting portraiture, family, research, and events participated in by African American scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln.
Date of Original:: 1904/2000
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Description:: Funeral programs documenting the funeral services of residents, primarily African American, who were connected to the Savannah, Georgia community.
Date of Original:: 1850/2024
Contributing Institution:: City of Savannah Municipal Archives

Description:: Photographs dating from the 1840s to the 2009 from the photography staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Date of Original:: 1840/2009
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections

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