Papers, 1821-1974.

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Papers, 1821-1974.

Family materials including correspondence, school records, military records, biographical material, certificates, and clippings, of the Troutman and Battey families; business materials including speeches, legal materials on the Wally Butts' libel case concerning a University of Georgia football game, tax receipts, and land deeds; material relating to charitable contributions; clippings and programs on Troutman; and miscellaneous materials including correspondence and speeches. Persons represented include Robert Battey, physician in Rome, Ga., Harold H. Martin, Ralph McGill, Celestine Sibley, Judge Samuel Hale Sibley, and Herman Talmadge. Organizations represented include Atlanta Community Chest, Hunter Hill A.M.E. Church, and Richard B. Russell Foundation.

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Martin, Harold H.

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Harold Harber Martin, journalist and author, was born September 17, 1910 in Commerce, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in journalism (A.B. 1933), was a sports and features writer for the Atlanta GEORGIAN (1932-1939), columnist for the Atlanta CONSTITUTION (1939-1943; 1946-1974), and a contributor (1944-45; 1950), associate editor (1951-1953), contributing editor (1958-1963), and editor-at-large (1964-1969) with the SATURDAY EVENING POST. He is the author of numerous articles ...

University of Georgia. International Student Life Office

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The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, approximately 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States. In 2005 U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked UGA 19th in its list of the top 50 public universities for a sixth year in a row. UGA also ranks 58th overall (public and private) in the nation. Today, it is the largest university of the University Syste...

Atlanta Community Chest

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African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

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...

Butts, Wallace, 1905-

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Troutman, Henry B. (Henry Battey), 1886-1978

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Lawyer, of Atlanta, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1821-1974. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28418999 ...

Troutman family.

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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 ...

Battey, Robert, 1828-1895

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Robert Battey, pharmacist, physician, and professor, was born 22 November 1828, near Augusta, Georgia, and died 8 November 1895, in Rome, Georgia. A pharmacist in Rome, Georgia (1848-ca. 1852), Battey graduated in medicine from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (1857), practiced in Rome, Georgia, traveled and studied in Europe (1859), and developed a procedure known as "Battey's Operation" for the removal of the ovaries. During the Civil War he served as Senior Surgeon with Hampton's Bri...

Hunter Hill A.M.E. Church (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Battey family.

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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...

Richard B. Russell foundation

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In 1971, the Richard B. Russell Foundation established an oral history project to document the personal and political life of Richard B. Russell, Jr. From the description of Richard B. Russell Jr. oral histories, 1971-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477330 ...

Sibley, Samuel Hale, 1873-1958

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An internationally known scientist, Henry Clay White served as professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia from 1872 to 1927. White was especially interested in the application of chemistry to the improvement of crops, and he advanced agricultural science and education in Georgia. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 30, 1848, White son of Louisa Elvira Brown and Levi Stratton White, a merchant. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1870, he worked briefly ...