- Collection:
- Social Change Collection
- Title:
- Mike Trotter oral history interview, 2009-06-09
- Creator:
- Trotter, Michael H.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Kuhn, Cliff
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2009-06-09
- Subject:
- Race relations
Racism--Law and legislation
Lawyers
Law firms
Education
Educational law and legislation - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Michael H. Trotter was born in Atlanta in 1936 and attended the Clark Howell School and later the Henry Grady High School. He trained at Harvard University's School of Law and was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1961. Mike Trotter is a leading corporate and finance attorney, and has been recognized in the Best Lawyers in America since 1998. Trotter's civic engagement has included establishing a number of committees and groups, including being a founding member of the Atlanta Action Forum, a committee comprised of civic minded businessmen working to resolve social problems facing Atlanta.
In this interview, Mike Trotter discusses ways in which, as a lawyer and an active member of several civic organizations, he tried to mobilize the white professional community to perform charitable outreach projects and to participate in interracial justice efforts. He also details the power struggles that occurred during the fraught process of combining the student bodies of segregated schools and firing many now-redundant teachers. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/schange/id/219
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/schange:219/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- NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Trotter, Michael, interviewed by Cliff Kuhn, June 9, 2009, Y2009-03, Social Change Oral Histories, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
- Extent:
- 02:11:18
- Original Collection:
- Social Change Oral Histories
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
