- Collection:
- Living Atlanta oral history collection
- Title:
- Oral history interview with John A. Griffin, 1979 March 27
- Creator:
- Griffin, John A., (John Ansley), 1912-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Kuhn, Clifford
- Publisher:
- Living Atlanta oral history project records, MSS 637, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Date of Original:
- 1979-03-27
- Subject:
- Educators--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Oral history interview with John A. Griffin interviewed by Clifford Kuhn on 1979 March 27.
Educator, labor arbitrator, and civil rights activist, a graduate of Emory, Griffin (1912-1997) served on the faculty at Georgia Tech during the late 1930s and early 1940s. While working at Emory, he worked with the Ford Foundation on a study of segregated Southern schools, leading to the publication of journalist Harry Ashmore's The Negro and the Schools. He served as Associate Director for Conciliation with the United States Community Relations Service and was Executive Director of the Southern Education Foundation from 1965 to 1978. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:geh_livatl_ahc-637-060-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/livingatlanta/do:ahc-637-060-001
- Rights Holder:
- ©WRFG
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Living Atlanta oral history project records, MSS 637, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 1 interview : circa 30 minutes
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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