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Moore's Ford Memorial Committee Records
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Moore's Ford Memorial Committee |
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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.
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RBRL/437 |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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Athens Oral History Project
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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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.
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RBRL/361/AOHP |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault Papers
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Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, 1942- |
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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.
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RBRL/043/CHG |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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Herman E. Talmadge Collection, Subgroup C, Series XI: Flexys
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Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 |
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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.
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RBRL/102/HET_C_XI |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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