- Collection:
- Planning Atlanta - A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s
- Title:
- Norwood Manor Civic Association oral history interview, 2015 February 19
- Creator:
- Fears, Michael; Turner, Hollis
- Contributor to Resource:
- Allen, Leslye Joy
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2015-02-19
- Subject:
- Urban renewal
Community development, Urban
Metropolitan government - People:
- Franklin, Shirley, 1945-
Campbell, Bill (William Craig), 1953- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- transcripts
digital audio formats - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- application/pdf
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Originally from Senoia, Georgia, Ms. Hollis Turner grew up in Norwood Manor with her parents who moved there in 1956 when she was three years old. She attended John Wesley Dobbs Elementary School, Fulton High School, Georgia State University, and Atlanta Area Technical College. Turner worked for roughly thirty-five years for the Federal Government as a Technical Support Assistant with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Turner moved away from Norwood Manor in her young adulthood but returned in 1989. She is now retired and continues her service to her community through the Norwood Manor Civic Association. Mr. Michael Fears was born at Grady Memorial Hospital and attended John Wesley Dobbs Elementary School and Fulton High School. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology for two years before transferring to and graduating from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University). He is the son of Atlanta grassroots civil and political rights activist Asberry Fears. As a teenager, he was the city of Atlanta's first African-American traffic checker, a summer job he performed in the early 1960s during the administration of Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. He worked as a Revenue Officer for the Internal Revenue Service from 1968 to 1976. He is now retired from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) after twenty-five years of service as an Equal Opportunity Minority Business Enterprise Officer. Fears has served as President of the Norwood Manor Civic Association for most of its existence, since 1997.
This interview with Mr. Michael Fears and Ms. Hollis A. Turner is a follow-up to the first interview of Norwood Manor Civic Association members that was conducted by Leslye Joy Allen. Hollis and Fears discuss the differences between members of the Norwood Manor Civic Association and the members of the much older Thomasville Civic Association. They describe the successes and the problems of the administrations of Atlanta Mayors Bill Campbell and Shirley Franklin. Additionally, they offer an analysis of some of the failures of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty, discussing how the War on Poverty altered policies for public housing dwellers that exacerbated the problems of low-income African American families.
Locations: Thomasville -- Fulton County (Ga.) -- Atlanta (Ga.) - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PlanATL/id/2832
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/PlanATL:2832/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- Audio: 01:02:17, Transcript: 51 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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