- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Boisfeuillet Jones Retirement Dinner
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1975-11-20
- Subject:
- Dinner parties--Georgia--Atlanta
Philanthropists--Georgia--Atlanta
Dining tables--Georgia--Atlanta
Tableware
African Americans--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Flower arrangements
Retirement
Economic assistance, Domestic--Georgia--Atlanta
Jones, Boisfeuillet
Allison, William W.
LaBord, Susie
Jones, Anne
Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of (left to right) two unidentified individuals; Susie LaBord, a social activist and former board member of Economic Opportunity Atlanta (EOA); Bill Allison, the executive director of EOA; Boisfeuillet Jones, the chairman of the Board of Directors of EOA; and Anne Jones, the wife of Boisfeuillet Jones, at an appreciation dinner in honor of Jones's retirement from EOA, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Boisfeuillet Jones (1913-2001) was an educator, federal official and administrator of several philanthropic foundations. He worked at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia from 1946 to 1960 as an assistant professor of political science, dean of administration and a vice president. Jones served as the president of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation and the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation. He served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Economic Opportunity Atlanta for eleven years. He also served as special assistant to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.389.007
ahc101389007.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1152
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1152/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U. S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
