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“An Easy Burden:” Reflections on the Andrew J. Young, Jr. Papers Photograph Collection

Posted onOctober 15, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

by Brenda Tindal, Graduate Processing Assistant, Auburn Avenue Research Library and MARBL Woodruff Fellow “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert Read More …

No Longer Hidden: A Civil Rights Oral History Resource in the Tom Dent Papers

Posted onOctober 8, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

By Laura J. Thomson, Director of Processing “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center Read More …

Martin Luther King Speaks: The Radio Voice of SCLC

Posted onOctober 4, 2010December 2, 2013AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

by Rebecca Sherman, Graduate Processing Assistant, Southern Christian Leaderhip Conference records, MARBL “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Read More …

John Lewis: Voter Education Project Executive Director, 1970-1977

Posted onSeptember 27, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

By Alison Hughes, Archival Assistant, Voter Education Project Collection, Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, Read More …

Andrew Young’s Campaigns

Posted onSeptember 17, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

By Cheryl Oestreicher, Project Archivist, Andrew J. Young Papers, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Read More …

An Easy Burden: an Oral History Collection of Andrew Young

Posted onSeptember 13, 2010December 2, 2013AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

By Christopher Harter, Director of Library and Reference Services, Amistad Research Center “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Read More …

A Year in Review

Posted onSeptember 3, 2010December 2, 2013AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

By Sarah Quigley, Project Archivist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference records, MARBL “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library Read More …

Voter Education Project Under Vernon Jordan (1966-1970)

Posted onAugust 31, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

“Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden Read More …

Andrew Young the Ambassador

Posted onAugust 26, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover II1 Comment

By Cheryl Oestreicher, Project Archivist, Auburn Avenue Research Library “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta Read More …

Library Stacks Shift as 200,000 Items Go to Storage

Posted onAugust 13, 2010AuthorGlover II1 Comment

Project Overview The Stack Tower Project will send 20,000 linear feet of materials – some 200,000 items – to on-campus and off-campus storage. This will reduce six floors of collections to five, freeing up level 9 for immediate and future use by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Book movers will shift the Read More …

Marr-McGee Family Papers: Early Entrepreneur Files

Posted onAugust 10, 2010March 21, 2018AuthorGlover IILeave a comment

By Amber L. Moore, Project Archivist, Amistad Research Center “Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations” is a collaborative project between Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta Read More …

Reverend Fred D. Taylor and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Posted onAugust 6, 2010December 2, 2013AuthorGlover II1 Comment

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