- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Welfare Rights Meeting
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1976-12
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Meetings--Georgia--Atlanta
Welfare rights movement--Georgia--Atlanta
Government officials--Georgia
Georgia. Dept. of Human Resources
Parham, T. M. Jim (Thomas M. Jim) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Jim Parham (right), Georgia's Commissioner of Human Resources, meeting with welfare families, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thomas Melvin "Jim" Parham (d. 1996) was appointed director of Georgia's Division for Children and Youth in 1963. In 1971, he became the director of the Department of Family and Children's Services. Then, in 1975, Georgia Governor George Busbee named Parham the state's Commissioner of Human Resources. President Carter selected Parham to be a White House Special Assistant for Intergovernment Relations in 1977. He later became deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Human Development Services in the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.566.014
ahc101566014.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2639
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2639/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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