- Collection:
- Voices Across The Color Line Oral History Collection, 2005-2006
- Title:
- Robert Edge interview
- Creator:
- Edge, Robert
Merritt, Carole - Publisher:
- Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry RD, Atlanta, GA 30305
- Date of Original:
- 2005-08-18
- Subject:
- African Americans--History
Civil rights
Racism
Race discrimination
Race relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Education
Education--Georgia--Atlanta
Yale University
Atlanta University Center (Ga.)
University of Oxford
Alston, Miller & Gaines (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- Edge, Robert
Sibley, John
Woodruff, Robert, 1889-1985
Aiken, Lucy Rucker
Fowler, Wyche, 1940- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this interview, Robert Edge provides his perspective of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia as a white lawyer working in an integrated law firm. Edge shares his experience growing up in Lawrenceville, Georgia; describes how those in power in Atlanta used their business influence for social change in the early 1970s; and recalls what was distinctive about Atlanta as a city and its experience with civil rights. He ends the interview with his assessment of social change in Atlanta.
Mr. Edge spent his childhood in Lawrenceville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. He won a Rhodes Scholarship in his senior year at the University of Georgia. He attended Oxford University and subsequently Yale Law School. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 180.010.001
- Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VACL/id/42
- Digital Object URL:
- https://www.youtube.com/embed/n_9Zfz_enuo
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- 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:
- 49:50 hours
- Original Collection:
- MSS 990, Voices Across the Color Line oral history transcriptions, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
