Crime and Corrections Project files, 1954-1969.

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Crime and Corrections Project files, 1954-1969.

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The collection consists of records of the Crime and Corrections Project of the SRC from 1954-1969. Includes correspondence of Director John O. Boone, newsletters, printed material, questionnaires, reports, speeches, and surveys which document the activities of the project, whose formal operation was from 1966 to 1968. Contains subject matter relating to prison reform, juvenile delinquency, prison segregation, public assistance programs, and social work and corrections. The collection also contains the Project's African American youth surveys of Atlanta schools.

7.6 linear ft.2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403912

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Southern Regional Council

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The Help Our Public Education (HOPE) project was established in 1958 by a group of community leaders and concerned citizens to disseminate information regarding school integration in Georgia. After the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision of 1954, HOPE anticipated that many of Georgia's public schools would close, because the state would refuse to comply. HOPE believed an informed public would take the necessary action through elected representatives to keep Georgia's public schools ope...

Crime and Corrections Project (Southern Regional Council)

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Boone, John O.

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