Organizations Assisting Schools in September files, 1955-1962.

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Organizations Assisting Schools in September files, 1955-1962.

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The collection consists of records relating to the Organizations Assisting Schools in September (OASIS) from 1955-1962. Includes correspondence, minutes, news releases, newsletters, and printed material documenting OASIS's efforts of coordinating a peaceful school integration in Atlanta, Georgia. The minutes of community meetings reveal the methodology by which OASIS hoped to persuade those who might oppose the desegregation effort. The correspondence is between local citizens and public officials who had been closely involved in the first school integration effort, including Mayor William B. Hartsfield, Chief of Police Herbert Jenkins, and School Superintendent John Letson.

1.3 linear ft.1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403916

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...

Organizations Assisting Schools in September (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Hartsfield, William Berry

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William Berry Hartsfield (1890-1971) served as Mayor of Atlanta 1937-1962. He served on the Atlanta City Council from 1923-1928 and represented Fulton County in the state legislature. Hartsfield was Mayor of Atlanta in 1939 when the city hosted the premiere of Gone With the Wind, the movie based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh). The film Gone With the Wind, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell (Marsh), premiered in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 15, 1939. From the descript...

Jenkins, Herbert T.

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Police chief of Atlanta, Ga.; b. 1907. From the description of Papers, 1881-1982. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28418026 ...

Letson, John.

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