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1 Title:   Moore's Ford Memorial Committee Records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Moore's Ford Memorial Committee  
  Dates:   1968-2011  
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The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee was founded in 1997 to commemorate and reconcile the 1946 Moore's Ford lynching, in which two African American couples were murdered by a white mob at the Moore's Ford bridge in Walton County, GA. The collection contains the committee's administrative and financial records, event planning files, files on the FBI and GBI investigations into the lynching and other incidents of racial violence, and documentation of the committee's support for restorative justice and reconciliation.
 
  Identifier:   RBRL/437  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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2 Title:   Athens Oral History Project  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
  Dates:   2014-  
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The Athens Oral History Project was initiated in 2014 to document modern Athens history, roughly from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Interviews cover topics such as neighborhoods and communities in Athens, civil rights demonstrations, African American history, as well as personal histories of narrators.
 
  Identifier:   RBRL/361/AOHP  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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3 Title:   Charlayne Hunter-Gault Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, 1942-  
  Dates:   1959-2018  
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a journalist and former correspondent for National Public Radio and CNN. In 1961 she and Hamilton Holmes became the first African Americans to attend the University of Georgia. Hunter-Gault has spent much of her career as a foreign correspondent, where she covered the fall and aftermath of apartheid in South Africa, as well as other political developments in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. She has been awarded a Peabody award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists in 1986, among numerous other honors. This collection documents her experience as one the first two African American students at the University of Georgia and her career in journalism.
 
  Identifier:   RBRL/043/CHG  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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4 Title:   Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C, Series XI: Flexys  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002  
  Dates:   1965-1980  
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Talmadge's office staff had to coordinate the organization of constituent correspondence records. The tracking system began with attaching the actual letter (incoming and outgoing), along with copies of approved response paragraphs. These materials were then organized under a subject access point. Topics of interest include tax reform, Vietnam, school desegregation, busing, gun control, social services, and the Panama Canal Treaty.
 
  Identifier:   RBRL/102/HET_C_XI  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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