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1 Title:   Linton M. and Josephine H. Collins Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Collins, Linton M.  
  Dates:   1874-1995  
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Josephine H. Collins was the daughter of Governor Lamartine Hardman. Her husband, Linton Collins, was appointed to the U.S. Court of Claims by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Judge Collins' papers document his work as a teacher, attorney, and judge, including material related to conscientious objectors during World War II. Ms. Collins' papers contain correspondence with family and friends, including letters from her father, and records related to the history of Sautee Nacoochee, GA.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL398  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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2 Title:   Joan Haddad Saliba Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Joan Haddad Saliba, 1928-2009  
  Dates:   1982-2002  
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This collection is composed of a scrapbook of Mayor Saliba's career. Materials found therein include photographs, newspaper clippings covering Saliba's political career, and some campaign materials. The collection also includes a correspondence with other prominent Georgians--including President Jimmy Carter, Governors Joy Frank Harris and Roy Barnes, and then-Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller--and with actor Jamie Farr, to whom Saliba was related. The collection also contains seven VHS cassettes, most of which are promotional videos for the City of Hartwell that feature Mayor Saliba.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL440  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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3 Title:   Our Stories, Our Lives: Georgia Libraries for Accessible Statewide Services (GLASS) Oral History Project  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia Libraries for Accessible Statewide Services  
  Dates:   June-December 2018  
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Our Stories, Our Lives is a collection of stories gathered by the Georgia Libraries for Accessible Statewide Services (GLASS) to preserve and document a more complete history of the disability experience, specifically that of people with print disabilities who are living in Georgia. This is an oral history project that works to both preserve and document the varying experiences of those with print disabilities through the stories of people who have lived/are living with a print disability, including visual impairment, physical impairment, blindness, or an organic reading disability such as dyslexia.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL451GLASS  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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4 Title:   Russell Family Collection, Record Group B: Mary Willie Russell Green  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   none  
  Dates:   1800s-1900s  
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This collection consists of correspondence between Mary Russell Green and her friends and family; the personal files of Green and her husband, Colonel Samuel Green; newspaper clippings kept by Green; photographs and scrapbooks of the Russell and Green family and friends; and Green's collection of newspaper articles and photographs associated with her brother, Richard B. Russell, Jr.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL003RFC_B  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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5 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:   RBRL437  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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6 Title:   Russell Family Collection, Record Group A: Ina Dillard Russell  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   none  
  Dates:   1855-1953  
  Contents:  
These papers contain mainly correspondence between Ina Russell and her husband, Richard B. Russell, Sr. and their son, Richard B. Russell, Jr., as well as other family members. The letters exchanged with Judge Russell and Senator Russell frequently contain commentary on political developments nationwide and in Georgia. The collection also includes family scrapbooks, books, newspaper clippings saved by Mrs. Russell, photographs, and a selection of stereo slides. The papers give an in-depth look at the social activities and mores of a large family at the turn of the twentieth century and contain information regarding Mrs. Russell's selection as Georgia's Mother of the Year and her work within the Presbyterian Church. Additional family photographs can be found in Subgroup D: Winder Papers of the Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection. Ina Dillard Russell, Sr.'s letters also appear elsewhere in the Russell Family Collection, as well as in the Papers of Judge Russell and Senator Russell. Several of these letters have been published in the book Roots and Ever Green, edited by Sally Russell.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL003RFC_A  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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7 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:   RBRL361AOHP  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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8 Title:   Josephine Mellichamp Georgiana Research Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Mellichamp, Josephine, 1923-1988.  
  Dates:   1963-1988  
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The collection consists of clippings, printed material, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera documenting a broad range of events, activities, people, and places in the state of Georgia from the earliest American Indian settlements through the early 1980s and, specifically, the history of senators in Georgia through the late 1970s. Drafts and research materials for Josephine Mellichamp's book, Senators from Georgia, provide an abundance of information on the careers of Georgia senators. The drafts of "Georgia Heritage" contained in these papers may be the only extant copies of the manuscript since the material was never published. The collection also contains a small collection of printed works.
  
  Identifier:   RBRL135JM  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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