- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lugenia Burns Hope
- Contributor to Resource:
- Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1871/1947
- Subject:
- History
Archaeology - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Lugenia Burns Hope was a prominent community organizer and civil rights activist, at both local and national levels, in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1908 she founded the Neighborhood Union to provide assistance to Atlanta's impoverished Black neighborhoods, and in 1932 she became the first vice president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lugenia-burns-hope-1871-1947/m-11109/
- Original Collection:
- Neighborhood Union Collection.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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