- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lugenia Burns Hope (1871-1947)
- Creator:
- Cardoza-Oquendo, Juan
- Date of Original:
- 2010-01-08
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women in community organization--Georgia--Atlanta
Women political activists--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Hope, Lugenia Burns
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Lugenia Burns Hope. Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta, Georgia, she worked for the improvement of black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure.
GSE identifier: SS8H7 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lugenia-burns-hope-1871-1947/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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