Atlanta's Black community and education oral history collection, 1978-1979.

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Atlanta's Black community and education oral history collection, 1978-1979.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to Atlanta's black community and education conducted by Vincent Fort from 1978-1979. The interviews mainly document the participation of African-American students from the universities and colleges within the Atlanta University Center in the 1960-1961 Atlanta sit-ins. Interviewees include Clarence Albert Bacote, Julian Bond, James Brawley, Donald Hollowell, Alton Hornsby, Lonnie King, Carolyn Long, Benjamin Elijah Mays, Lois Moreland, Harry V. Richardson, Margaret Rowley, Wendall Whalum, and Mary Ann Smith Wilson.

14 audiotapes ; cassette.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406263

Georgia State University

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Hollowell, Donald

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Donald Hollowell, lawyer, represented many of the students arrested during the Atlanta 1960-1961 sit-ins. From the description of Donald Hollowell oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 30. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727108 ...

Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...

Moreland, Lois.

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Lois Moreland, political science professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia during student sit-ins. From the description of Lois Moreland oral history interview, 1978 Dec. 1. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727130 ...

Bacote, Clarence Albert, 1906-

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Clarence Albert Bacote (1906-1981), African American educator and scholar, born in Kansas City, Missouri. From the description of Clarence Albert Bacote papers, 1932-1977. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477192 Clarence Albert Bacote (1906- ), professor at Atlanta University, active in black Atlanta politics in the 1940s, and headed the All-Citizens Registration Committee of 1946. From the description of ...

Brawley, James P., 1894-1985,

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James P. Brawley (1894-1985), president of Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of James P. Brawley oral history interview, 1979 Apr. 24. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727102 ...

Long, Carolyn Morrow.

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Carolyn Long, Clark College student (1958-1962), secretary of the student government (1956-1961), and leader in 1960 sit-ins. From the description of Carolyn Long oral history interview, 1979 July 13. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727123 ...

Richardson, Harry V. (Harry VanBuren), 1901-1990

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Harry VanBuren Richardson (1901-1990) educator, president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960-1961 student sit-ins. From the description of Harry V. Richardson oral history interview, [ca. 1979]. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727133 College president. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry V. Richardson : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id:...

Wilson, Mary Ann Smith,

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Mary Ann Smith Wilson, student at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960-1961 student sit-ins and secretary of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights. From the description of Mary Ann Smith Wilson oral history interview, 1979 Apr. 13. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727147 ...

Fort, Vincent, 1983-

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Atlanta University Center (Ga.)

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The Atlanta University Financial Records are a part of the Atlanta University Presidential Records series. The charter establishing Atlanta University was approved October 16, 1867. The University was part of the movement to educate Negroes at the end of the Civil War, and an extension of educational efforts spearheaded by freedmen and abolitionists, and was supported by black and white churches and organizations such as the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. The first st...

Rowley, Margaret, 1938-

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Margaret Rowley, chairman of the history dept. at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960-1961 student sit-ins. From the description of Margaret Rowley oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 22. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727138 ...

Whalum, Wendell, 1931-1987.

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Wendell Whalum (1931-1987), music instructor, director of Glee Club, and student body advisor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960-1961 student sit-ins. From the description of Wendell Whalum oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 21. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727144 ...

Georgia Government Documentation Project.

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King, Lonnie, 1968-

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Lonnie King, student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia and civil rights activist. Involved in student sit-ins and leader of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights. From the description of Lonnie King oral history interview, 1979 Apr. 20. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727119 ...

Hornsby, Alton.

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Alton Hornsby, professor of history at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of Alton Hornsby oral history interview, 1979 May 3. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727111 ...

Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Benjamin E. Mays : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527874 Benjamin E. Mays (1895- ), president of Morehouse College during the Atlanta 1960-1961 sit-ins. From the description of Benjamin Elijah Mays oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 29. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727125 President of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., from 1940...