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Social change collection
Transcripts and sound recordings of oral histories conducted in 2012 documenting community building, education policy, political campaigning, lobbying, strike action, student activism, civil and gender rights, anti-death penalty, homelessness, civil disobedience, social activism, and environmentalism in Georgia.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
2012
Subject
Capital punishment
Civil rights movements
Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (Ga.)
Justice, Administration of
Law enforcement
Lawyers
Legal assistance to the poor
Procedure (Law)
Race discrimination
Segregation
Social classes
Team Defense Project
Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
Medium
sound recordings
transcripts
oral histories (literary works)
Type
Sound, Text
Description
The Social Change Collections at GSU document the history of Atlanta neighborhoods and select social movements, primarily in Georgia. Included are topics and activities such as community building, education policy, political campaigning, lobbying, student activism, immigrant and refugee rights and experience, anti-death penalty, homelessness issues, civil disobedience, social activism, and environmentalism.
This Digital Collection focuses on items from the following collections.
Interviews from In Whose Hearts is a Highway: The Buford Highway Oral History Project, a multi-year initiative of the community-building organization We Love BuHi that aims to document first-person accounts from immigrants, refugees, and their descendants who have lived or worked along the Buford Highway Corridor from 1950 to the present. The mission of the project is to foster a strong and inclusive sense of Buford Highway’s community heritage and identities, a more comprehensive understanding of the past, and an inventory of current needs, challenges, and strengths to generate a shared vision for future change and development in the Buford Highway area.
Oral history interviews taken from the Harvey Newman papers. These interviews are with prominent political and civic leaders in Atlanta and were used in the writing of Andrew Young and the Making of Modern Atlanta, co-authored by GSU Professor Harvey K. Newman, Andrea Young and Ambassador Andrew Young. The Harvey Newman papers document Newman's teaching, research, and civic engagement. Much of the collection relates to two Atlanta-focused research projects, City of Atlanta Case Studies and Making of Modern Atlanta.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Georgia State University. Special Collections
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