Jean Douglas Smith oral history interview, 1977 July 30.

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Jean Douglas Smith oral history interview, 1977 July 30.

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The collection consists of an oral history interview with Jean Douglas Smith on July 30, 1977 in which she discusses the Douglas family residences; relationship with Helen Douglas Mankin; Mankin and Jean Smith raising money at Rockford College (Ill.); recreation at college; Mankin's money raising ideas; family background; move to Atlanta; Mankin's war service in the American Red Cross; Mankin and her real age; Mankin's broken first engagement; 1922 car trip across U.S.; Mankin's relationship with her family; Mankin's characteristics; Dr. William Randolph Smith's (Jean Smith's husband) relationship with Mankin; Mankin's temperament; Smith's and Mankin's paths diverge; and deaths in the family.

1 audiotape ; cassette.

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403274

Georgia State University

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Rockford College.

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Smith, William Randolph.

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Smith, Jean Douglas, b. 1898,

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Jean Douglas Smith (b. 1898), younger sister of Helen Douglas Mankin. From the description of Jean Douglas Smith oral history interview, 1977 July 30. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476423 ...

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...