Richard L. Stevens papers, 1964-1969.

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

United States National Student Association

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The National Student Association was founded in 1947 as a confederation of student governments across the nation, united for the purpose of improving education. It advocated federal aid for education, student publications without censorship and it took a stand against discrimination. Smith College students began affiliation with the organization the year it was created. In 1978 it merged with the National Student Lobby, forming the United States Student Association....

Stevens, Richard L., 1939-

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Richard Lee Stevens, activist and educator, originally from Miami Springs, Florida, lived in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1960s. He was a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and active in the peace, civil rights, and student movements in Atlanta and the South, and in 1965, was project director, Southern Student Human Relations Project, U.S. National Student Association. In 1970, Stevens was a faculty member at the New Experimental College in Thy, Denmark. From the descript...

Koinonia Farm

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Southern Student Organizing Committee.

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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 ...

Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...

Weltner, Charles Longstreet

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Charles Weltner, U.S. House of Representatives (1963-1967), Fulton County Superior Court Judge (1963-1967), and Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1981-1991). From the description of Charles Longstreet Weltner oral history interviews, 1986 July 9 and 17. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38477735 U.S. representative, lawyer, and judge, of Atlanta, Ga.; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1950-1991. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCa...

Maddox, Lester, 1915-2003

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Lester G. Maddox was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 September 1915, to Dean and Flonnie Maddox. He was educated in the Fulton County public school system but dropped out of high school in order to persue a career (either "to start working" or "to persue a career in something"). In 1936, he married Virginia Cox and the couple eventually had four children. In 1944, Maddox opened a short order grill in Atlanta that he sold a year later at a profit. Maddox continued to hold jobs in the grocery busi...