Helen Bullard papers, 1920-1979.

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Helen Bullard papers, 1920-1979.

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The collection contains papers of Helen Bullard from 1908-1979. Though the oldest items in the collection are photographs dating from the 1920's, the bulk of the papers were created in the late 1960's and the 1970's. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, writings and reports, clippings, and photos, relating to Bullard's interests in electioneering, Georgia and national politics, civil rights, civic affairs, and race relations; together with material relating to her involvement with Atlanta Housing Authority as consultant for tenant relations, and her work with Fernbank Science Center and its development into an urban park and biological center. Persons represented include Ivan Allen, George Busbee, Max Cleland, Jimmy Carter, William Wyche Fowler, Grace Towns Hamilton, James A. Mackay, Sidney J. Marcus, Zell Miller, Eliza K. Paschall, Celestine Sibley, Herman E. Talmadge, Nedra Tyre, and Jack H. Watson, Jr.

12.5 linear ft. (25 boxes and 2 OP)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6812194

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Watson, Jack H., 1938-

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Jack H. Watson was born on October 24, 1938 in El Paso, Texas. He received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1960 and an LL.B from Harvard University in 1966. He was an associate at King & Spalding in Atlanta, 1966 to 1971, and partner from 1972 to 1977. He also served as Counsel for the Metropolitan Atlanta Commission on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, 1966 to 1967; president of Metropolitan Atlanta Mental Health Association, 1971 to 1972; chairman of the Governor's Study Commission on A...

Atlanta Housing Authority

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Fernbank Science Center (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Bullard, Helen, 1908-1979

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Civic leader, of Atlanta, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1920-1979. (Emory University). WorldCat record id: 28418493 Helen Bullard was head of Helen Bulard Associates, a public relations firm. She was active in the Atlanta Housing Authority and well known for her handling of political campaigns. From the description of Papers, 1968-1977. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 31404693 Helen Elizabeth Bullard (June 16, 1908-July 20, 1979), pol...

Sibley, Celestine.

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Celestine Sibley (1917-), author and columnist, began her career with the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (1941- ) covering news stories. She became a political reporter and then columnist. From the description of Celestine Sibley papers, ca. 1900-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863197 Celestine Sibley, a renowned southern author, journalist, and syndicated columnist, reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999. Over her long career, she wrote more than 10,000 colum...

Allen, Ivan, 1911-2003

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Fowler, Wyche, 1940-

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Massell, Sam

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Businessman and mayor of Atlanta, Ga.; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1889-1983. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28414437 ...

Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002

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Herman E. Talmadge (1913- ), Georgia Governor (1947-1955) and U.S. Senator (1956-1980), born near McRae, Georgia. From the description of Herman E. Talmadge senatorial papers, 1945-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477028 Herman E. Talmadge (1913- ), Georgia Governor (1947-1955) and United States Senator (1956-1980) born near McRae, Georgia. T. Rogers Wade served as administrative assistant, fund raiser, and chairman of the 1980 U.S. senatorial campaign for Senator Talm...

Miller, Zell, 1932-

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Zell Bryan Miller was born on February 24, 1932 to Stephen Grady Miller, Dean of Young Harris College and former state senator (40th district, 1926-1928), and Birdie Bryan Miller, an art teacher at the same institution. Seventeen days after his son's birth, Stephen Miller passed away. Birdie Miller and their two children, Jane and Zell, remained in Young Harris until the onset of World War II, when they moved to Atlanta so that Mrs. Miller could work at the Bell Bomber plant making ...

Busbee, George, 1927-2004

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Cleland, Max, 1942-2021

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Joseph Maxwell Cleland (August 24, 1942 – November 9, 2021) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party from Georgia, he notably served as a Georgia State Senator from 1971 to 1975, as the 10th Administrator of Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981, as the 23rd Secretary of State of Georgia from 1983 to 1996, and as a United States Senator from Georgia from 1997 to 2003. Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Lithonia, Georgia, he graduated from Lithonia High School before earni...

Tyre, Nedra

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Hamilton, Grace Towns, 1907-1992

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Grace Towns Hamilton (1907- ), director of the Atlanta Urban League, active in the 1946 voter registration drive, and Georgia House of Representatives (1966-1985). From the description of Grace Towns Hamilton oral history interview, 1986 June 26. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476304 Grace Towns Hamilton (1907- ), director of the Atlanta Urban League and the Georgia House of Representatives (1966-1985). From the description of Grace Towns Hamil...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Mackay, James A. (James Armstrong), 1919-2004

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James Armstrong Mackay, congressman and attorney, was born 25 June 1919, in Fairfield, Alabama. He married Mary Caroline Lee. He was a DeKalb County, Georgia, representative for six terms from 1951-1952 and 1955-1964, and served as a United States Congressman from 1965-1967. He received a law degree from Emory University (1947), where he later taught law courses and served on the Board of Trustees. He worked as an attorney in Decatur, Georgia. From the description of James A. Mackay ...

Marcus, Sidney J., 1905-1984

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Paschall, Eliza K.

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Eliza King Paschall, author and activist, was born October 5, 1917, in Adams Run (Charleston County), South Carolina. During World War II, Paschall served with the American Red Cross Clubmobile, mobile units of volunteers providing refreshments and recreation to Allied soldiers across Europe. She married Walter Goode Paschall (1910-1959), a prominent Atlanta journalist, in 1945. She was active in civic, interracial, and women's organizations in which she held several offices including executive ...