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S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr. Papers
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Vandiver, S. Ernest (Samuel Ernest), 1918-2005. |
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1954-1998 |
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The S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr. Papers consist of office files and personal papers including correspondence, speeches, press releases,
reports from state agencies, news stories, editorials, photographs, and scrapbooks from Vandiver's career as governor of Georgia
(1959-1963), lieutenant governor of Georgia (1955-1958), lawyer, and from his post-career years. There are also materials
related to Vandiver's campaign activities, including his campaign for governor of Georgia in 1966 and for the United States
Senate in 1972. Series I. Governor's Office Files, 1959-1962, contains Vandiver's unofficial papers. His official gubernatorial
papers are located at the Georgia Department of Archives and History in Atlanta, Georgia.
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RBRL186SEV |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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Janet B. Scarborough Merritt Papers
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Merritt, Janet B. Scarborough, 1909-2000. |
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1900-2011 |
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Janet B. Scarborough Merritt was elected to represent the Sumter County (at the time, the 68th district) in the Georgia State
House in 1964. The only woman in the Georgia State House of Representatives when she was elected, and the first to represent
Sumter County, Merritt called herself a "full-time" representative. The topic of the role of women in government is thoroughly
documented throughout Merritt's speeches and writings. She served four terms in that position: she was elected again in 1966,
in 1968 (after reapportionment combined Sumter with Macon and Schley counties into the new 46th district), and in 1970. In
1972, after a second reapportionment, Merritt was defeated for re-election by her former colleague in the House, Oliver Oxford,
in a run-off. Merritt ran against Oxford a second time in the 1974 election, but was again narrowly defeated in a run-off.
The collection documents Merritt's campaigns, her time in the state legislature and her community activities including heavy
involvement in the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Of particular note are materials documenting Merritt's ongoing
battle to change Georgia's state flag. In 1969, Merritt sponsored a bill to change the Georgia flag adopted in 1955, shortly
after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, back to the 1879 version, which did not include the Confederate
battle flag. Included in the collection are speeches, notes, journals, correspondence, clippings, photographs, artifacts,
and audiovisual material.
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RBRL121JSM |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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Melba R. Williams Papers
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Williams, Melba R. |
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1954-1994 |
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The Melba Williams Papers span the dates 1954-1994, with the bulk of the papers representing personal documents generated
through Williams' work in the Democratic Party at the local, state and national level, and during her tenure as a member of
the State Elections Board.
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RBRL159MW |
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies |
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