Lottie Watkins oral history interview, 1992 June 25.

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Lottie Watkins oral history interview, 1992 June 25.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726935

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Lottie Watkins on June 25, 1992 in which she discusses her family background; education; early working career; 1960 Watkins starts own property management business; Geneva Haugabrooks as role model; fundraising for Butler Street YMCA; Bill Lucas, scout for Atlanta Braves; United Way and the YMCA; financial accountability of YMCA; Hungry Club and prominent attendees; whites at the Hungry Club; social workers important to Watkins' civic work; Grace Hamilton; Eunice Cooper; the Atlanta Urban League; student sit-in movement; Jesse Hill; black boycott of downtown Atlanta; Watkins joins lunch counter sit-in; leaders and participants in sit-ins; how Watkins business and civic activities related; Watkins' family participates in political activities; Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference; West Hunter Library discussions on education; police brutality and scholarship funds; All Citizens Registration Drive; Watkins becomes registrar; NAACP Freedom Fund Banquets; Aaron Henry; Eunice Cooper and women as officers in the NAACP; fundrasing; Grace Hamilton in the Urban League; Butler Street YMCA; various political campaign involvements by Watkins; Lyndon Johnson; interracial meetings among Democrats; and Ella Mae Brayboy.

2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (65 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406223

Georgia State University

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