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Lokey, Hamilton, 1910-1996,. Hamilton and Muriel Lokey oral history interview, 1989 Jan. 26.

Title: Hamilton and Muriel Lokey oral history interview, 1989 Jan. 26.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Hamilton Lokey and Muriel Lokey on January 26, 1989 in which they discuss organizing HOPE; Muggsy Smith; Helen Bullard; Hamilton doesn't involve himself in HOPE's positions; "Fill the Tower with HOPE" rally; HOPE's relationship with Bill Hartsfield; HOPE as a growing process for participants; Harry Boyte; meeting participation; Frances Breeden takes over after Boyte; reaction to HOPE's programs; Beverly Long and public relations incidents; HOPE is monitored by business interests; Betty Harris funding; the Southern Regional Council; Sylvan Meyer; Ernest Vandiver; Griffin Bell and the Sibley Commission; John Sibley; League of Women Voters; HOPE tactics; Atlanta Committee for International Visitors; Emmaus House; Poverty Rights Office; Dorothy Tilly; Morris Abram-Jim Davis congressional race (1954); Jim Davis; Margaret McDougall; Glenn Frick; and family background.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (106 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477679 View

Sibley family. Sibley, Jennings, and Erwin family papers, 1839-1986.

Title: Sibley, Jennings, and Erwin family papers, 1839-1986.

This collection contains correspondence, military records, accounts, clippings, photographs, and various other materials regarding the Sibley, Jennings, and Erwin families from 1839-1986. Included within this collection are correspondence, clippings, and other documents detailing the career of John Adams Sibley (1888-1986) as a successful attorney and his involvement in the desegregation of Georgia public schools. Also included are the military records and correspondence of James Longstreet Sibley Jennings, the correspondence of Josephine Sibley Jennings, and clippings collected by Erwin Sibley 1890-1979 on the career of U.S. Representative, Carl Vinson who was also from Milledgeville, Georgia.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (10 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436221173 View

Maloof, Manuel,. Manuel Maloof oral history interviews, 1994 June 13 and 15.

Title: Manuel Maloof oral history interviews, 1994 June 13 and 15.

The collection consists of oral history interviews with Manuel Maloof on June 13 and 15, 1994 in which he discusses his early political career; election to DeKalb County Commission; demographic changes in DeKalb County; family background; father's career; early life; Leo Frank; segregation, discrimination, and anti-Catholicism in pre-WWII Atlanta; minority representation in politics; James L. Key; "wide open" Atlanta; political corruption; William B. Hartsfield; Plan of Improvement; Shag Cates; Mills B. Lane; Ivan Allen; early black politicians and policemen; desegregation; Atlanta airport; Lake Lanier; WWII experiences and marriage; county unit system; early business ventures; Manuel's Tavern; early political involvement; population growth in DeKalb County; Community Relations Commission; minority political involvement; and merit system.

ArchivalResource: 3 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (83 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477692 View

Williams, Osgood, 1913-. Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 June 2.

Title: Osgood Williams oral history interview, 1988 June 2.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Osgood Williams on June 2, 1988 in which he discusses Koinonia Farm; Robert Jordan; Cocking affair; Young Men's Group of the Democratic Party; E.D. River's role in the 1946 governor's campaign, Jimmy Carmichael, and Eugene Talmadge; M.E. Thompson; Tom Linder's school solution; Williams in the 1952 race; Private School Amendment; school desegregation; Constance Baker Motley; segregation of taxis; Decatur main streetcar line; HOPE; desegregation of University of Georgia; W.O. Brooks; John Sibley; John Greer; Williams on the Fulton County Civil (now State) Court; Lester Maddox case; Randall Evans; and Lester Maddox as governor.

ArchivalResource: 2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (68 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477739 View

S. Ernest Vandiver oral history interview, January 25, 1994

Title: S. Ernest Vandiver oral history interview, January 25, 1994

Cliff Kuhn focused this interview on the October 1960 arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr. and its aftermath. Among topics discussed: March on the Capitol; Sibley Commission; Judge Sibley; Griffin Bell; Herman Talmadge; Marvin Griffin; meeting with John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; Vandiver's experience with National Guard; role of Bobby Kennedy in 1960 presidential election; return of Martin Luther King to Georgia in 1960; 1960 meeting of Southern governors; effect of Atlanta sit‑ins on presidential election; Vandiver's communication with Mayor Hartsfield; Vandiver meeting with Herman Talmadge and black leaders; controversy surrounding Judge Mitchell's revocation of King's probation; intervention of Senator Kennedy; Bob Russell; George Stewart; legal issues; Bobby Kennedy phone call to Mitchell; impact on presidential election; Charlie Pou's Atlanta Journal article; 1972 Senate race between Vandiver, David Gambrell, Sam Nunn; Vandiver association with George Stewart; Stewart and Mitchell meeting with Bobby Kennedy; Theodore White's investigation of Kennedy‑King affair; Vandiver's governorship; desegregation of schools; end of county unit system; desegregation of University of Georgia.

ArchivalResource: 2 item(s) (audio (1:40:34 duration) transcript (59 pages))

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Sibley, Erwin U., 1890-1979. Erwin U. Sibley papers, [ca. 1914-1977].

Title: Erwin U. Sibley papers, [ca. 1914-1977].

The collection consists of papers of Erwin U. Sibley of Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, from ca. 1914-1977. The papers include correspondence, court files, and legal case files. The materials document Sibley's legal career, his activities as a Special Assistant (1934-1947) in the Lands Division of the U.S. Attorney General's Office, his military duties in the Judge Advocate General' office (Charleston, S.C.) during World War II, and his judgeship (1949-1973) of Baldwin County, Georgia. Sibley's legal files document his representation of many of the railroad companies in Georgia as well as textile and mining industries. The collection also documents Sibley's involvement with the Baldwin County Progressive Farmers' Club, the Boy Scouts of America, the First Presbyterian Church (Milledgeville, Ga.), the Sons of the American Revolution, and several Georgia bar associations. Correspondents include Richard B. Russell Jr., John A. Sibley, Hughes Spalding, Herman E. Talmadge, and Carl Vinson.

ArchivalResource: 37.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476859 View

Sibley, John A. (John Adams), 1888-1986. John A. Sibley speech, 1932, Sept. 12.

Title: John A. Sibley speech, 1932, Sept. 12.

The collection consists of a transcript of a speech made by John A. Sibley on WSB radio (Atlanta, Ga.) on September 12, 1932. The speech was in support of Richard B. Russell, Jr.'s senatorial campaign.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477402 View

Sibley, John A. (John Adams), 1888-1986. John A. Sibley Speech, 1932.

Title: John A. Sibley Speech, 1932.

The collection consists of one transcript of a speech made by John A. Sibley on WSB radio (Atlanta, Ga.) on September 12, 1932. The speech was in support of Richard B. Russell, Jr.'s senatorial campaign.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear foot)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228881001 View

Pendergrast, Nan,. Nan Pendergrast oral history interview, 1992 June 24.

Title: Nan Pendergrast oral history interview, 1992 June 24.

The collection consist of an oral history interview with Nan Pendergrast on June 24, 1992 in which she discusses family background; social consciousness; education; Walter White; 1906 Atlanta race riot; Leo Frank lynching; Ralph McGill; Barry Goldwater; met Britt Pendergrast; Britt Pendergrast's educational and career background; pacifist reaction to WW II; Atlanta's American Friends Service Committee in 1940s; YWCA and race issue; Dorothy Tilly; Josephine Wilkins; League of Women Voters; Republican Party; Jewish women and the League; Bea Haas; Jo Heyman; Rebecca Gershon; Judge Elbert Tuttle; state Republican Party and desegregation; John Calhoun; the Atlanta Daily World; Dean Josephine Murphy of Atlanta University; Council on Human Relations; lack of black/white relationships in Atlanta; Whitney Young; mid-1940s registration drive; Morris Abram; Georgia Republican delegation split in 1952; Judge Tuttle; Dwight Eisenhower as Pendergrast political idol; and family attitude toward Franklin D. Roosevelt. She also discusses a strike at the Southern Spring Bed Company; desegregation; the Urban League; 1956 desegregation crisis of League of Women Voters; George Goodwin; how liberals interacted with Atlanta power structure; Pendergrast articles; HOPE; the Tower Theater desegregationist meeting; people who inspired Pendergrast; Sibley Commission hearings; John Sibley; HOPE; Maxine Freedman and Judy Nieman; Muriel Lokey; Lanier Randall; Harry Boyte controversy; Hamilton Lokey and HOPE's pragmatic approach to desegregation; Friends Meeting House; business community and desegregation; Helen Bullard; Ivan Allen; Muggsy Smith, Lester Maddox, restaurant desegregation; Partners for Progress; Dick Rich and Rich's Department Store; Bob Coles and black transfer students; Grace Hamilton and the Urban League; Sadie Mays; Jessie Hill; and Journal and Constitution quote from Pendergrast, October 1961.

ArchivalResource: 3 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (101 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38728025 View

American Jewish Committee. Atlanta Chapter. Atlanta oral history project records, 1976-1983.

Title: Atlanta oral history project records, 1976-1983.

The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted from 1976-1983 by the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Included in the project are interviews with such members of prominent Atlanta Jewish families as John Sibley, David Marx, Harry Epstein, Sam Eplan, Rebecca Gershon, Donald Oberdorfer, Joseph Cohen, Josephine Heyman, Cecil Alexander, and Sinclair Jacobs. The interviews pertain to recollections about the history of their own community and of Atlanta in general. Also includes audiotapes relating to oral history meetings, educational programs, and the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee seventy-fifth anniversary celebration.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82785973 View

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

Sibley, John A. (John Adams), 1888-1986. John A. Sibley papers, circa 1912-1989.

Title: John A. Sibley papers, circa 1912-1989.

The collection consists of the papers of John A. Sibley from circa 1912-1989. The bulk of the collection consists of personal and business correspondence relating to his law practice, his employment at Coca-Cola Company and Trust Company of Georgia, and his association with various organizations. The collection also includes papers relating to the Sibley family, the personal papers of John Sibley, speeches, material pertaining to various honors and awards bestowed on Sibley, photographs and audiovisual material, and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 173 linear ft. (416 boxes, 3 bound v. (BV), 3 oversized bound v. (OBV), and 25 oversized papers (OP))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863242 View