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Clear All State Georgia Rights In Copyright

Description:: Digital exhibition celebrating the centennial of The Pulitzer Prizes by featuring Pulitzer winners with ties to Georgia and featuring Pulitzer winning work that has promoted civil rights.
Date of Original:: 1925/2016
Contributing Institution:: Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
Georgia Archives
New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)

Description:: Papers of Georgia author, lecturer, human rights advocate Lillian Smith (1897-1966) from circa 1920-1980, one of the first prominent white Southerners to stand against segregation.
Date of Original:: 1920/1980
Contributing Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Correspondence, published literature, and notes dating from 1919 to 1938 related to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
Date of Original:: 1919/1938
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Materials belonging to Georgia governor and businessman Lester Maddox dating from 1915/2003
Date of Original:: 1915/2003
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: Lillian Smith (1897-1966), author, lecturer, and human rights advocate, was born in Jasper County, Florida, and resided in Rabun County, Georgia. Her best known fiction piece was the controversial 1944 novel 'Strange Fruit'.
Date of Original:: 1915/1972
Contributing Institution:: University of Florida. Libraries

Description:: Documents, correspondence and publications produced by the Fulton County Schools Superintendents' office between 1914 and 1969.
Date of Original:: 1914/1969
Contributing Institution:: Fulton County Schools Archive

Description:: Materials that document race relations and desegregation in Georgia from the late nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth century.
Date of Original:: 1894/1962
Contributing Institution:: Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Black-and-white photographs dating from 1893 to 1975 of the career of Atlanta police chief Herbert T. Jenkins including images of African American police officers and the Summerhill riots in 1966.
Date of Original:: 1893/1975
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: History of African American life during the age of Jim Crow, roughly the period from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Date of Original:: 1890/1959
Contributing Institution:: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Description:: Records documenting the process of desegregation and other events relating to racial issues at Emory including documents summarizing the process of integration; copies of various statements issued by Emory faculty and students; a copy of the Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Injunction to the Superior Court of DeKalb County; accounts of activities surrounding campus racial protests that occurred in 1969 (print and audio); and information concerning more recent events that took place in the 1990s.
Date of Original:: 1877/1995
Contributing Institution:: Emory University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

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