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African Americans -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Living Atlanta oral history collection

 Collection
Collection number: aarllivingatlanta
Overview Taped interviews, radio programs, transcripts of some of the interviews, material relating to funding, and background research, of the oral history project Living Atlanta: an Oral History of the City Between the World Wars, produced by Radio Free Georgia Broadcasting Foundation between 1977 and 1978. Topics include Atlanta Crackers baseball team, blues, business, economic conditions, education, Jews, Ku Klux Klan, police, politics and government, race relations, and social life. Persons...
Dates: 1977-1985

Al Hester papers

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.069
Overview Research files of Al Hester, a professor of journalism at the University of Georgia who later in his life wrote extensively on Athens history. The files pertain to the planning and writing of three books: Enduring Legacy: Clarke County Georgia's Ex-Slave Legislators Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson; Putting On Blue: Confederates from the Athens, Georgia, Area Who Became Galvanized Yankees; and Athens Memories: The W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project Interviews; and related historical topics....
Dates: 1980-2017; Majority of material found within 1998-2017