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DeKalb County plat map books, years 1912-1936
DeKalb History Center (Decatur, Ga.)Ten DeKalb County plat map books dating from 1912-1936, containing maps that show various subdivisions, streets, and property owner names throughout DeKalb County, created by the DeKalb County government for showing boundaries of properties for tax purposes. Each book contains approximately 100 maps.
Suwanee First Methodist Church Historic Documents
Suwanee First United Methodist Church (Suwanee, Ga.)Historic documents created by Suwanee First Methodist Church (Suwanee, Ga.) leaders that reflect the church’s history from the 1880s through the 1950s, including vital statistics (records of marriages, infant baptisms, and dates of death) before the state of Georgia began retaining such information in 1919.
City of Savannah Municipal Archives Funeral Programs
City of Savannah Municipal ArchivesFuneral programs documenting the funeral services of residents, primarily African American, who were connected to the Savannah, Georgia community.
Athos Menaboni Visual Works
Troup County Historical Society and ArchivesThis series includes one hundred fifty-two images of art by Menaboni that are owned by organizations, institutions (including the Troup County Archives), and private collectors. Each work was professionally photographed under the direction of Russell Clayton.
Civil Rights Digital Library
The struggle for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s is among the most far-reaching social movements in the nation's history, and it represents a crucial step in the evolution of American democracy. The Civil Rights Digital Library promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale. The CRDL features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. The CRDL provides educator resources and contextual materials, including Freedom on Film, relating instructive stories and discussion questions from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia, delivering engaging online articles and multimedia.
CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative received support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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This black-and-white news film clip is centered around Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (wearing a light shirt and dark pants), Reverend Dr. Ralph Abernathy (wearing a darker shirt, dark pants, and standing to the left of Dr. King), and a third unidentified African American male civil rights worker speaking to a small group of young African American men, women, and children inside of Dick Gay's poolroom “Dick's Cue Room,” in Albany Georgia's Harlem neighborhood, to explain the role of nonviolence in the movement, and to solicit support from members of Albany's African American community. As Dr. King and Dr. Abernathy make way and encourage people to make room for others to gather inside, they emphasize that opponents of the Civil Rights Movement would love to see their work described as violent when it is the opposite: Christian love and nonviolence. Dr. Abernathy emphasizes that everyone will be expected to show up to future demonstrations practicing nonviolence. He instructs people to close up their businesses and march.
As the camera pans onto some very young African American boys, Dr. Abernathy warns of the “shame and disgrace” of the previous night that violent actors brought to the Albany Movement and its reputation. He notes that [Albany police chief Laurie] Pritchett has trained his forces to respond to those acts of violence. The clip jumps back and forth between people clearing out of the pool hall in an orderly fashion, then back to Dr. King instructing civil rights workers to urge their friends and families to attend two more mass meetings; he is hopeful “thousands” will demonstrate. King also notes that it is “marvelous” to see so many young people participating, and emphasizes that guns or ammunition are not needed, as they try to get word out about the mass meetings around the city of Albany. Dr. Abernathy breaks down the concept of nonviolence, emphasizing clearly that he doesn't want anyone to go away with the impression that they are making an appeal to minimize their struggle or stop resisting “the evil system of segregation.” The clip ends as he says, “It takes a strong man to make a nonviolent man.”
Georgia Historic Newspapers
Georgia's print media history began in 1763 with the establishment of the state's first newspaper, the Savannah Gazette. Considered history's "rough draft," newspaper journalism has wide ranging impact. Beyond a reporting of facts, newspapers reflect the social and cultural values of the time in which they were compiled and as such, are invaluable to scholars and the general public alike. These publications document not only cities and counties throughout the state, but also record the activities of the state's various ethnic, religious, and educational groups.
The Georgia Historic Newspapers portal provides free, full-text searchable access to over 1 million pages of Georgia newspaper content dating from 1763 to 1968. Newspaper titles are regularly digitized and added to the archive.
The Georgia Historic Newspapers database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePlace. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Additional support has been made available by the R.J. Taylor Foundation, Flint Energies, and a number of other local foundations and public libraries.
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Flannery O’Connor’s Appearances in the Georgia Catholic Diocesan Paper The Bulletin
From 1956 to 1964, Georgia writer Flannery O'Connor regularly contributed to the book reviews section of the Georgia Catholic diocesan paper The Bulletin, that show her intellectual engagement with Catholicism.