Nancy Downing oral history interview, 1977 July 23.

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Nancy Downing oral history interview, 1977 July 23.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476381

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Nancy Downing on July 23, 1977 in which she discusses Helen Douglas Mankin's "spring salute"; locomotive bell; Mankin's lake property fire; Rose, Sue and the electric fence; Curtis Bryant's dogs; the raft at the lake; Mankin and baseball; Mankin uses county gravel for lake driveway; Mankin's arrangement for school girls to sing for drunk Legionnaires; Mankin's generosity; women's attitudes toward Mankin; Mankin's style; relationship with Guy Mankin Sr.; and Mankin's black clients.

1 audiotape ; cassette.

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403232

Georgia State University

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Mankin, Guy Mark, 1896-1957

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When Guy Mark Mankin was born on 11 September 1896, in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, his father, William Armour Mankin, was 28 and his mother, Elisabeth Guy Blake, was 22. He married Leona Gertrude Davis in 1918, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1929 and lived in District 722, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Fulton, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1957. He died...

Downing, Nancy, 1910-

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Nancy Downing (1910- ), Helen Douglas Mankin's goddaughter. From the description of Nancy Downing oral history interview, 1977 July 23. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476381 ...

Spritzer, Lorraine Nelson

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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...

Berry, Sue Douglas.

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Sue Douglas Berry, niece of Helen Douglas Mankin and sister to Hamilton Douglas III. From the description of Sue Douglas Berry and Margaret Keller Douglas oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 11. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476377 ...

Bryant, Curtis.

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