Proceedings of a conference on race held by The Negro Christian Student Conference with representatives from over 85 HBCUs from 17 states and the District..... Read More about The New Voice in Race Adjustments. Addresses and Reports presented at The Negro Christian Student...
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The almost 80 plates from original photographs document rural Georgia during the New Deal South. The photographs were taken by Jack Delano as part of..... Read More about Tenants of the Almighty. [New Deal Photography
Ten thousand dollar bond signed on January 13, 1873 by Georgia Secretary of State, Nathan Crawford Barnett binding himself to the Reconstruction Governor of Georgia..... Read More about 1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia...
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
From the dust jacket: the author, “expertly blended the Springfield Church History with events which shaped Augusta’s history…” (Searles). “As a quiet trail blazer on..... Read More about Old Springfield. Race and Religion in Augusta, Georgia
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of Southern slaves clashed with her..... Read More about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Henry E. Tremain was awarded a Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864. Through error, two brigades..... Read More about 1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for...
Quite scarce. Compilation of addresses on contemporary economic, political, educational, and social issues affecting African Americans. These 17 talks were delivered at the second Southern..... Read More about The Human Way. Addresses on Race Problems at the Southern Sociological Congress Atlanta, 1913
Georgia Governor Bullock had only been in office four days when he received this request for a judicial appointment. The first page is a brief..... Read More about 1868 Self-Recommendation to Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock regarding appointment as 19th...
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Charming commencement issue from this African American college in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest private historically black liberal arts college for women. Though not a yearbook..... Read More about Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8
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U.S. Post Office announcement by First Assistant Postmaster General Preston S. Sanford concerning the transmission of funds via postal money orders to American soldiers and..... Read More about 1898, Spanish-American War broadside:] (No. 6243.) Postal Money Orders Drawn in favor or...
An examination of the “foundation of slavery in Georgia, to trace the development and operation of the plantation régime to the outbreak of the Civil..... Read More about Plantation Slavery In Georgia
Two letters from William Robertson (1749/50–1829) to Georgia Governor James Jackson requesting, in both instances, a leave of absence from his official duties. In full..... Read More about Two 1798 Autograph Letters Signed from William Robertson, Georgia Secretary to the Senate, to...
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond..... Read More about 1801 Autograph Letter Signed from Samuel Coleman, Virginia clerk, to Georgia Governor David...
In this boxing rematch, Georgian-native Sugar Ray Robinson defeated England’s Randy Turpin a.k.a. “The Leamington Licker” on September 12, 1951 at the Polo Grounds in..... Read More about The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines...
Rare fold-out pocket time table providing the schedule of trains, to and from Savannah, Gainesville, Chattahoochee and Albany; and also trains between Savannah and Jacksonville..... Read More about Official Pocket Time Table of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. Showing Arrangement of...
President James Monroe hereby transmits the reports of U.S. Attorney General William Wirt relating “...to any persons (citizens of the United States) who have been..... Read More about Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting, In pursuance of a resolution of...
![In Manuscript, Printed Circular Letter:] Macon, Georgia, 9th August, 1832. Gentlemen, The...](/pictures/thumb/145341_1.jpg?v=1534362277)
This August 1832 Macon, Georgia circular letter calls on the legislature of Georgia to threaten to nullify or resist protective tariff laws of the United..... Read More about In Manuscript, Printed Circular Letter:] Macon, Georgia, 9th August, 1832. Gentlemen, The...
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by African-American sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville..... Read More about The Negro American Artisan
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)..... Read More about Economic Co-Operation among Negro Americans
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)..... Read More about Efforts for Social Social Betterment among Negro Americans
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First two volumes—eight issues in all—of Phylon, a quarterly academic journal dedicated to issues of race and culture from an African American perspective, edited by..... Read More about Phylon, The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture [Volumes I and II
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Association Copy of the author’s second book; this copy belonging to Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), missionary and educator, with his signature and dated by him..... Read More about The Negro and the White Man. [Association Copy
Speech of Ohio Republican Congressman William Lawrence concerning a legislative bill from the Reconstruction Committee on the readmission to the Union of the former Confederate..... Read More about Admission of Georgia. Speech of Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives,...
