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Williams, Osgood, 1913-. Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 May 12.

Title: Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 May 12.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Osgood Williams on May 12, 1988 in which he discusses A.T. Walden; Primus King case; black disfranchisement; Plan of Improvement; James V. Carmichael; Gene Talmadge; Tom Watson; Franklin D. Roosevelt; political parties; voter registration in rural areas for 1946; enfranchisement of blacks; NAACP; Atlanta Negro Voters League; Bill Hartsfield; Buckhead; East Point; Ku Klux Klan; MARTA; Daniel Duke and the flogging trials; John Boykin; county unit system; Walter O. Brooks; Senator Walter George; Henry Wallace; Mankin/Davis congressional race (1946); 1954 Morris Abram-James Davis congressional race; Charles Weltner; Scott Candler; Wyman Lowe; Columbians; Helen Mankin; Hank Henderson; county unit system controversy; Margaret MacDougall; "Active Voters" plaques; Sam Sibley; Elbert Tuttle; opposition to Wage Stabilization Board; Huey Long; New Deal in Georgia; and Ellis Arnall.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (88 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477743 View

Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-. Grace Towns Hamilton oral history interview, 1986 June 26.

Title: Grace Towns Hamilton oral history interview, 1986 June 26.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Grace Towns Hamilton on June 26, 1986 in which she discusses organizing voter registration; black Atlanta churches; census maps; Robert Thompson; Prudence Herndon; business and financial support of registration; CALHOUN v. LATIMER; the 1946 report on schools; Mary Barker; A.T. Walden; Democratic clubs; obstacles to voter registration in rural Georgia; Rufus Clement; Q.V. Williamson; Georgia's reaction to BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION; Atlanta's NAACP efforts in response to BROWN; William B. Hartsfield; desegregation of the Atlanta police force; Atlanta's new charter; redistricting voter precincts in Atlanta; the League of Women Voters; Atlanta city council; Ivan Allen; Maynard Jackson; the Fulton County Commission; mayoral power; opposition to new charter; Appropriations Committee; the evolution of the Speaker of the House; John Greer; health programs; election irregularities; memories of elections; and the 1984 election and how it was affected by reapportionment.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (53 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476304 View

Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979, 1926-1972

Title: Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979 1926-1972

Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond's father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond's two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions. Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunch, Rufus Clement, J.G. St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W.C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A.A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter Woodson and Monroe Work.

ArchivalResource: 169 boxes; (84.5 linear ft.)

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Walden, A. T. (Austin Thomas), 1885-1965. Papers, 1885-1965.

Title: Papers, 1885-1965.

Files from Walden's office and separate files for organizations and associations and specific cases in which he served or was actively involved. Topics and organizations include Afro-American Life Insurance Company, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta City Executive Commission, Atlanta Negro Voters League, Atlanta Urban League, Butler Street YMCA, Atlanta, civil rights in Georgia, Democratic Party of Georgia, Georgia Voters League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, public welfare, and segregation.

ArchivalResource: 20.75 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28414773 View

Goodwin, George,. Goodwin party oral history interview, 1977 July 25.

Title: Goodwin party oral history interview, 1977 July 25.

The collection consists of a videotaped oral history interview with George Goodwin, James Mackay, and Bea Haas on July 25, 1977 in which they discuss Jim Davis; Mankin's qualities; Mankin's rump committee; Robert Ramspeck; Davis' racial extremism; John Sammons Bell; Rooster Armisted; M.L. St. John; Murphy Candler; Larry McDonald; Georgia and the ERA; B. Brooks, editor of The Statesman, photographs Mankin at interracial meetings; George Stewart; Martin Lurther King, Jr. and 1960 traffic offense which sent him to Reidsville prison; intercession of John and Robert Kennedy in King case; race issue during Mankin's campaigns; Dr. John Griffin; 1948 primary election; Everett Millican; Bert Lance; Abraham Ribicoff and mystery bank; Guy Mankin Sr.; Mankin's interest in Israel; Margaret MacDougall; Guy Mankins Sr.'s death; Curtis Bryant lake property disputed with Mankin; Ed White; and Mankin's personality.

ArchivalResource: 1 videotape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477485 View

Law, W. W.,. W.W. Law oral history interview, 1990 Nov. 15.

Title: W.W. Law oral history interview, 1990 Nov. 15.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with W.W. Law on November 15, 1990 in which he discusses early childhood memories of family and church; early twentieth century Savannah; segregated schools in Savannah; Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert and the revival of the NAACP in Georgia; the establishment of a Georgia Federation of NAACP Branches; Gilbert, Primus King and Dr. Brewer's fight to end the white primary; YMCA; Gilbert and voter registration drives; John McGlockton; Ella Baker in Savannah; NAACP youth organization; voter registration "schools"; Johnny Bouhan and the Savannah political machine; John Kennedy and the birth of city management; desegregation of the police force; segregated lines for the "Freedom Train" (1948); Savannah's progressive race relations; Jackie Robinson; NAACP and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union; Gilbert and A.T. Walden, John Wesley Dobbs, and C.L. Harper; Georgia's attacks on the NAACP in the 1940s; NAACP youth organization and its concentration on black history and philosophy; John Clifford Hardwick III; Walter J. Leonard; learning to speak in public; World War II service; lobbying for youth causes; historical preservation; Mills B. Lane IV; early NAACP leaders; Dr. William Madison Boyd; D.U. Pullum and "Terrible" Terrell County; John Wesley Dobbs; Reverend Shropshire; NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr.; churches and the NAACP; lunch counter sit-ins (1960); mass meetings; Hosea Williams and voter registration; Rev. Oliver Wendell Holmes; and grass roots movement.

ArchivalResource: 7 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (94 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476307 View

Henderson, Jacob R., 1911-. Jacob R. Henderson oral history interview 1992 July 24.

Title: Jacob R. Henderson oral history interview 1992 July 24.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Jacob Henderson on July 24, 1992 in which he discusses education in Atlanta; University Homes; John Egan Homes; managing public housing; the value of public housing to its tenants; downfall of public housing; involvement with Alpha Phi Alpha; John Wesley Dobbs; A.T. Walden; partisan politics; origins of Negro Voters League; W.H. "Chief" Aiken; Civilian Defense; voter registration in John Egan Homes; Helen Douglas Mankin election in 1946; impact of Mankin election on black voting; importance of Voters League; Atlanta Daily World's affect on elections; Robert Thompson; 1946 voter registration drive; mapping system; Urban League; black church involvement in voter registration; Grace Towns Hamilton; Hughes Spalding Hospital; FEPC and the Bell Bomber plant; Captain Collins; employment at the Bell Bomber plant; training workers for defense jobs; dismissal from housing project; mass meetings and political endorsement; Negro Voters League "yardstick"; Henderson Travel Agency; fashion design; importance of black travel agencies; travels to Africa; established black leadership and their relation to the student movements in the 1960s; and importance of understanding history.

ArchivalResource: 1 videotape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38727051 View

Mackay, James A. (James Armstrong), 1919-. James A. Mackay oral history interview, 1986 Mar. 31.

Title: James A. Mackay oral history interview, 1986 Mar. 31.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with James A. Mackay on March 31, 1986 in which he discusses the Georgia Veterans for Majority Rule; 1950 race against Ben Smith; political opposition; 1952 Mel Turner race; 1934 Atlanta mayoral race; efforts to end county unit system; Della Andrews and the Society for the Preservation of the Supremacy of the White Race; Morris Abram; Neill Primary Act; campaign strategies and issues; Plan of Improvement; Mackay's defeat; Jim Davis; learning the ropes as a new legislator; toll-road blacklist; Mills Lane; corporation control of Georgia; A.T. Walden; Wiley Moore; Henry Grady Hotel; white primary; Andrew Young; the media; The Statesmen; Morris Abram-Jim Davis congressional race (1954); Loretta Chappell; and Herman Talmadge.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (45 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477688 View

Walden, A. T. (Austin Thomas), 1885-1965. Papers, 1885-1965.

Title: Papers, 1885-1965.

This collection contains the office files of Austin Thomas Walden including files regarding the organizations and associations he was involved.

ArchivalResource: 42 boxes, 20.75 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28155678 View

Walden, A. T. (Austin Thomas), 1885-1965. Austin Thomas Walden Photograph Collection, 1915-1965.

Title: Austin Thomas Walden Photograph Collection, 1915-1965.

Family photographs and images that highlight A..T. Walden's career as a civic leader and attorney. Family photographs consist of images of Walden, including some taken during his military service. His wife Mary Ellen, and grandchildren are also featured. The focus of the remainder of the collection is on Walden's career. These photographs include Walden with organizations he belonged to such as the Butler Street Y.M.C.A. and the Conference of Southern Democrats. Also in the collection are photographs of events, including an image taken during one of the "Sibley Commission" hearings on Atlanta public school desegregation in 1960. Some events are unidentified, but feature Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., Banker L.D. Milton, the Reverend William Holmes Borders, Judge William Henry Hastie, and Robert F. Kennedy. Other material includes photographs of some of Walden's legal clients and images surrounding their court cases.

ArchivalResource: 48 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49348742 View

Johnson, Leroy R., 1928-. Leroy R. Johnson oral history interview, 1991.

Title: Leroy R. Johnson oral history interview, 1991.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Leroy R. Johnson in 1991 in which he discusses his early life; Washington High School; C.L. Harper; teacher's pay; Butler Street YMCA; black churches; Ebenezer Baptist Church; Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr.; Dr. William Holmes Borders; segregation; Dr. Benjamin Mays; the Fox Theater; life at Morehouse College; early political involvement; Atlanta Negro Voters League; voting classes; "All Citizens Voting Drive"; desegregation of the Atlanta police force; early career in education; Tuskegee, Alabama; A.T. Walden; career in the solicitor generals office; Fulton County courthouse; campaign for state Senate; county unit system; reapportionment; Johnson's first term in the Senate; reaction of other senators; desegregation of the state cafeteria; and state capitol water fountains.

ArchivalResource: 1 videotape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38727058 View

Tuttle, Elbert P. (Elbert Parr), 1897-. Elbert P. Tuttle oral history interview, 1992 Apr. 17.

Title: Elbert P. Tuttle oral history interview, 1992 Apr. 17.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Elbert P. Tuttle on April 17, 1992 in which he discusses his early life and education; first law practice; Atlanta in the 1920's; Georgia National Guard; John Downer case; Elberton lynch mob; the John Downer rape trial; A.T. Walden; the Leo Frank case; the Angelo Herndon case; Morehouse College; Dr. Benjamin Mays; the Republican Party; the Democratic Party primary; the Georgia General Assembly and the county unit system; composition of Georgia Republican Party; patronage; "lily-white" Republicans; John Wesley Dobbs; Brown v. Board of Education; the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; extending the Brown decision; the legal basis for "massive resistance"; ending litigation on school cases; the desegregation of the University of Georgia; hate mail; Sarah Tuttle; Rich's Department Store; Lester Maddox; and the Pickrick Restaurant; Prathia Hall v. Heart of Atlanta; desegregation of amusement places; voting rights; jury standards; Julian Bond case; and the Fifth Circuit.

ArchivalResource: 4 audiotapes ; cassette.1 videotape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38727065 View