Glenn W. Rainey papers, 1917-1974.

Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966

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"Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil ("Segregation is spiritual lynching," she said) and that it leads to social moral retardation."--"Lillian Smith (1897-1966)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 18, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org. From the descri...

Southern Regional Council

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The Help Our Public Education (HOPE) project was established in 1958 by a group of community leaders and concerned citizens to disseminate information regarding school integration in Georgia. After the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision of 1954, HOPE anticipated that many of Georgia's public schools would close, because the state would refuse to comply. HOPE believed an informed public would take the necessary action through elected representatives to keep Georgia's public schools ope...

Emory university

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The Baccalaureate service is an inter-religious ceremony for all graduating Emory University students receiving bachelor's degrees and consists of prayers, music, and an address by the Emory University President. The Commencement ceremony includes all Emory University graduates and consists of an address by the commencement speaker, the conferral of honorary degrees and awards, and the conferral of degrees en masse. From the description of Emory University Baccalaureate and Commencem...

Rainey, Dorothy Quattlebaum.

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Dorothy Quattlebaum Rainey, prominent Atlanta liberal. From the description of Dorothy Rainey oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 8. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476386 ...

Long, Nat G.

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McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969

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Ralph McGill, as editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, was a leading voince for racial and ethnic tolerance in the South from the 1940s through the 1960s. As an influential daily columnist, he broke the code of silence on the subject of segregation, chastising a generation of demagogues, timid journalists, and ministers who feared change. When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools in 1954 and southern demagogues led defiance of the court, segregationists vilified McGill ...

Georgia Education Association

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Hartsock, Ernest, 1903-1930

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Ernest Abner Hartsock, poet, educator, editor, artist, and musician, was born 5 May 1903 in Atlanta, Georgia, and died there 14 December 1930. Hartsock was foremost a poet, publishing three volumes of poetry. For one of his poems, "Strange Splendor", Hatsock was awarded the annual award of excellence by the Poetry Society of America (1929). In addition to his poetry writing, Hartsock served as a member and officer of several poetry organizations; held the position of professor of poetics at Ogle...

Tilly, Dorothy Rogers, 1883-1970

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Dorothy Rogers Tilly, church and civil rights worker, was born 30 June 1883, in Hampton, Georgia, and died 16 March 1970, in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia (A.B., 1901), married Milton Eben Tilly (1903), and lived most of her life in Altanta, Georgia. Tilly spent her lifetime working for civil rights through Methodist Church organizations, including the Women's Society of Christian Service, and through civic groups, including President Truman's Committee on...

Snelling, Paula Varson

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Paula Snelling was the lifelong partner of Georgia writer Lillian Smith and collaborated with her on the literary magazine South today and the running of Laurel Falls Camp. "Lillian Smith was one of the first prominent white southerners to denounce racial segregation openly and to work actively against the entrenched and often brutally enforced world of Jim Crow. From as early as the 1930s, she argued that Jim Crow was evil ("Segregation is spiritual lynching," she said)...

Boys High School (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of C. Vann Woodward : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419190 C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, on November 13, 1908. He received his Ph.B. from Emory University in 1930; his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932; and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1937. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of history at the Univer...

Georgia institute of technology

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The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or Tech, was founded on October 13, 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology. The creation of the educational institution was part of the plans of Georgia leadership to reconstruct and revitalize the state's economy following the Civil War. Eighty-four candidates took the first entrance examination on October 3, 1888 and the school formally opened on October 5, 1888. Over the next several decades the school evolved from tr...

Atlanta Christian Palestine Committee.

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McClatchey, Devereaux.

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YMCA of the USA

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A child of evangelical Protestantism, the YMCA at first considered itself a specialized agency for bringing young men to Christ. Although the early Y's mission was unabashedly religious in nature, the organization focused on method rather than doctrine or philosophy. Dominated by business men rather than professional religious leaders, the movement tended to emphasize facilities, expansion, practical usefulness, and specific influence. Early work included not only the distribution of tracts, Bib...

Rainey, Glenn W. (Glenn Weddington), 1907-1989.

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Glenn Weddington Rainey, educator and author, was born 7 April 1907, in Atlanta, Georgia, and died 29 March 1989, in Atlanta, Georgia. A professor of English at Georgia Institute of Technology (1932-1974), Rainey was also a founder of Tech's chapter of the American Association of University Professors and of the Georgia Education Association. He was active in many political and civic organizations including the Georgia Commission on International Cooperation, the Committee for Georgia, Citizens'...

Bliven, Bruce, 1889-1977

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Author, editor, and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bruce Bliven, 1953-1968. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 148793561 Editor of the New Republic, writer, and lecturer. From the description of Bruce Bliven papers, 1906-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571477 Editor of the New Republic, writer, and lecturer. Bliven, born 27 July 1889, received his b.a. in English from Stanford University in 1911. He died 6 May 1977...

Porohovshikov, Peter S.

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Commission on Interracial Cooperation

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The Commission on Interracial Cooperation was founded in 1918 by a group of prominent blacks and whites who wished to address the social, political, and economic problems facing African Americans. Incorporated in 1929 in Georgia, the Commission consisted of state and local committees throughout the South. Will W. Alexander, a white Methodist minister served as director for twenty-five years. The organization was dissolved in 1944 and succeeded by the Southern Regional Council. From t...

Democratic Party (Ga.)

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Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Committee for Georgia.

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Atlanta Community Planning Council.

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Citizens' Fact-finding Committee.

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Rainey family.

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