The Belle of Ashby Street: Helen Douglas Mankin and Georgia politics oral history collection, 1977-1978.

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The Belle of Ashby Street: Helen Douglas Mankin and Georgia politics oral history collection, 1977-1978.

The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Lorraine Nelson Spritzer for her book THE BELLE OF ASHBY STREET: HELEN DOUGLAS MANKIN AND GEORGIA POLITICS. Interviewees include Morris Abram, Ellis Arnall, Clarence Bacote, Helen Bullard, Thomas Camp, James C. Davis, Grace Towns Hamilton, Sidney and Leah Janus, Everett Millican, Dorothy and Glenn W. Rainey, George C. Stoney, Robert A. Thompson, as well as friends and family members.

25 audiotapes ; cassette.1 videotape.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403193

Georgia State University

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Georgia Government Documentation Project.

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Abram, Morris B.

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Morris B. Abram (1918- ) lawyer, human rights advocate, and diplomat, born in Fitzgerald, Georgia. Abram has served in various capacities for government and political organizations such as Peace Corps (1961), White House Conference on Civil Rights (1965), United Nations Commission on Civil Rights (1965-1968), United States Committe on Civil Rights (1984-1986), New York (State) Moreland Commission on Nursing Homes and Residential Facilities (1975-1976), President's Commission for the Study of Eth...

Bacote, Clarence Albert, 1906-

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Clarence Albert Bacote (1906-1981), African American educator and scholar, born in Kansas City, Missouri. From the description of Clarence Albert Bacote papers, 1932-1977. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477192 Clarence Albert Bacote (1906- ), professor at Atlanta University, active in black Atlanta politics in the 1940s, and headed the All-Citizens Registration Committee of 1946. From the description of ...

Camp, Thomas L. (Thomas Lee), 1905-

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Judge, of Fulton County, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1932-1981. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28419675 Thomas L. Camp, (1905- ), Atlanta Civil Court Judge (1957-1981) and 1946 candidate for Georgia's 5th District. From the description of Thomas L. Camp oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 7. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476380 Thomas L. Camp (1905- ), Civil Court Judge in Atlanta, Georgia (1957-1981) and Chief Ju...

Davis, James C. (James Curran), 1895-1981

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James Curran Davis (1895- ), Georgia House of Representatives (1925-1927), Superior Court Judge (1943-1947), U.S. House of Representatives (1947-1963). From the description of James C. Davis oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 11. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476434 James Curran Erskine Davis, attorney, judge, and legislator, was born May 17, 1895, in Franklin, Georgia, and died December 28, 1981, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a state legislator from DeKalb ...

Stoney, George C.

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of George C. Stoney : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131666 George C. Stoney, film maker and professor of film at New York University, managed Helen Douglas Mankin's 1948 Congressional campaign. From the description of George C. Stoney oral history interview, 1977 June 21. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476424 George C. Stoney (191...

Mankin, Helen Douglas, 1896-1956

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Helen Douglas Mankin (September 11, 1896 – July 25, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician. She was the second woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives, serving from February 1946 to January 1947. Born Helen Douglas in Atlanta, she attended public and private schools there before attending Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where she graduated with an A.B. in 1917. After serving as a civilian ambulasnce driver in a Red Cross unit attached to the Frenc...

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...

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 ...

Janus, Sidney D.

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Spritzer, Lorraine Nelson

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Rainey, Glenn W. 1907-1988.

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Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992

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Ellis Gibbs Arnall (1907- ), Georgia Governor (1943-1947). From the description of Ellis Gibbs Arnall oral history interview, 1971 July 24 and September 16. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38726976 From the description of Ellis Gibbs Arnall oral history interview, 1976 July 6. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476301 From the description of Ellis Gibbs Arnall oral history interview, 1977 July 27. (Georgia State University). WorldCat r...

Millican, Everett, 1897-

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Everett Millican (b. 1897), Atlanta Alderman and Georgia Senate (1935-1954) for Fulton County, Georgia. From the description of Everett Millican oral history interview, 1977 July 30. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476385 ...

Thompson, Robert A. 1910-

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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...