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Inventory of the
Living Atlanta Oral History CollectionAuburn Avenue Research Library on African
American Culture and History
Inventory of the
Living Atlanta Oral History Collection
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
Auburn
Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
Presented online by the Digital Library of Georgia
Repository: Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Auburn
Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, 101 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30303
Collection Number: livingatlanta
Title: Living Atlanta oral history
collection
Date: 1977-1985
Quantity: 21 cubic ft.
Abstract: 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 represented include William B. Hartsfield and James Key. Interviews
mainly conducted by Harlon Joye, Clifford M. Kuhn, and E. Bernard
West.
A
collection of fifty (50) audiocassette tapes which are actually a 50 - part
documentary series produced by WRFG Radio (89.3 FM) in 1977.
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| Hill,
Jesse, Jr. interviwee. |
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| Pennington, T. Maurice,
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| African
Americans--Georgia. |
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| Baseball--Georgia. |
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| Blues (Music)--Georgia. |
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| Education--Georgia. |
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| Jews--Georgia. |
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| Minor league
baseball--Georgia. |
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| Nativism. |
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| Police--Georgia. |
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| Race
relations. |
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| Racism--Georgia. |
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| Radio
broadcasting--Georgia. |
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| Secret societies--Georgia. |
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| White supremacy
movements--Georgia. |
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| Atlanta
(Ga.)--Cultural affairs--Music. |
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| Atlanta
(Ga.)--Legal affairs--Police. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Business,
industries, and trades. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Economic
conditions. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Education. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--History. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Politics and
government. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Population
elements--African Americans. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Population
elements--Jews. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Race
relations. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Radio and television
broadcasting. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Recreation and
sports--Baseball. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and
customs. |
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| Atlanta (Ga.)--Societies,
etc.--Nativism. |
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| Georgia--Business, industries, and trades. |
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| Georgia--Cultural
affairs--Music. |
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| Georgia--Economic conditions. |
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| Georgia--Education. |
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| Georgia--History,
Local. |
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| Georgia--Legal
affairs--Police. |
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| Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950. |
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| Georgia--Population
elements--African Americans. |
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| Georgia--Population elements--Jews. |
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| Georgia--Race relations. |
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| Georgia--Radio and television broadcasting. |
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| Georgia--Recreation and sports--Baseball. |
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| Georgia--Social life and customs. |
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| Georgia--Societies, etc.--Nativism. |
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| Audio tapes. |
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| Interviews. |
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| Oral histories. |
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The Etiquette of Race Relations - Part I. |
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The Etiquette of Race Relations - Part II. |
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The Streetcar Workers and the 1916 Strike. |
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The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. |
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Public Education in Atlanta - Part I: The 1920's. The beginning of
progressive education; early white high schools; sex
discrimination. |
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Public Education in
Atlanta - Part II: Booker T. Washington High, Atlanta's First Black Public High
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Public Education in
Atlanta - Part III: The 1930's. How the school system and its employees
survived the Depression. |
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Atlanta's Blues and
Country Musicians - Part I: Making a Living. |
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Atlanta's Blues and Country Musicians - Part II: Recording and
Radio. |
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The Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce's 1926 Forward Atlanta Campaign. |
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Auburn Avenue and Atlanta Black Commerce. |
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Sweet Auburn
Avenue - Center of Black Life. |
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Working on
the Railroads - Part I: The Enginemen. |
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Working on the Railroads - Part II: The Trainmen. |
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Working on the Railroads - Part III: The
Servicemen. |
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Atlanta's
Underside - Part I: Bootlegging. |
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The Business
Women of Atlanta. |
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The Professional
Women of Atlanta. |
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The Domestic
Workers of Atlanta. |
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Atlanta's
Underside - Part II: Gambling and Prostitution. |
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Atlanta's Five Black Colleges - Part I: An Oasis of Black
Intelligensia in a Segregated City. |
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Atlanta's Five Black Colleges - Part II: Black Student
Life. |
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Atlanta's White
Student Life. |
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Health and
Medicine - Part I: Health Conditions, Epidemics and Home Remedies. |
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Health and Medicine - Part II: Atlanta's
Doctors and Hospitals. Focuses on racial discrimination. |
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Black Baseball - Part I: The Black
Crackers in the 1920's. |
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Black Baseball -
Part II: The Black Crackers Championship Team of 1938. |
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White Liberals and Atlanta's Interracial
Organizations - Part I: Committee for Interracial Cooperation and the
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. |
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White Liberals and Atlanta's Interracial
Organizations - Part II: The 1930's and the Rise of the Southern Regional
Council. |
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Black and Red in
Atlanta: Fascists and Communists in the Early 1930's. |
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The Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta. |
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Atlanta Entertainment - Part I: Grand Opera and Fiddlers'
Conventions. |
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Atlanta Entertainment - Part II: Black and White Dance Bands and
Clubs. |
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Atlanta
Entertainment - Part III: Theaters and Vaudeville. |
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The Great
Depression - Part I: Conditions in Atlanta and the NRA. |
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The Great Depression - Part II: Relief and
Welfare Efforts. |
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The Great
Depression - Part III: Unemployment and New Deal Welfare Projects. |
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The Textile Workers and the 1934
Strike. |
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The Police on the
Job. |
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The Police and the
Black Community. |
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The Fight to Hire
Black Police. |
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Atlanta's
Progressive Mayors: Mayor James Key. |
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Atlanta's Progressive Mayors: Mayor William Hartsfield. |
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Black Politics in Atlanta. |
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Techwood and University Homes - Part I:
The Nation's First Federal Public Housing Projects. |
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Techwood and
University Homes - Part II: Early Tenants. |
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Atlanta's Black
Newspapers. |
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Segregation and
Atlanta's Churches. |
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Atlanta's Jewish
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Atlanta and World
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Auburn
Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
101 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30303
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