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SNCC News Release

Date: 1963
Description: News release from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Georgia for immediate release in Greenville, Mississippi with the headli...
Poster

Crusade for Citizenship Flyer

Date: 1958
Description: A flyer advertising the Crusade for Citizenship on February 12, 1958. An illustration shows men and women voting. Text reads, in part: "20 cities will hold...
Photograph

Labor Action at White Provisions

Date: 
Description: Two representatives of the Georgia CIO, C.H. Gillman and Loren Nelleo, visiting with strikers at the Swift company's White Provisions plant. The strikers w...
Photograph

Union Membership Drive

Date: 1952
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America members at the Armour plant in Atlanta check membership cards in an effort to bring 100 percent membership into loca...
Photograph

All CIO Made

Date: 10 1948
Description: The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) booth at the Southeastern World's Fair in Atlanta featured local products made by CIO members. Visitors to t...
Photograph

Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Photograph

Waiting Area

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Cabinet of sundries (toothpastes, shaving supplies, aspirin, etc.) next to the waiting area at Joyce Smith Gaines' Pharmacy.
Photograph

Joyce Smith Gaines' Drug Shop

Date: 04 28 1950
Description: Exterior view of Joyce Smith Gaines' Drug Shop.
Photograph

International Scouts and Helicopter Used by Atlanta Police

Date: 
Description: International Scouts and a helicopter used by the Atlanta police emergency rescue unit.
Photograph

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Bradens

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Pictured left to right are James Dombrowski, Carl and Anne Braden, Frank Wilkinson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta King at a reception in Atlanta, Geo...
Photograph

Confederate Breastworks

Date: 
Description: A view of Confederate breastworks, ridges in the hillsides for defense, at Western Heights. A fence divides the land in the foreground. Caption reads: "Con...
Photograph

Terminal Station

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Terminal Station, which opened in 1905, serving Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, and the Atlanta and West Point. T...
Photograph

Wilkinson and Braden in Handcuffs

Date: 05 01 1961
Description: Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden at the time of their surrender to federal authorities. Both men had refused to testify to before the House Un-American Acti...
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 3

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with a cannon and earthworks in the foreground. Tents are in the background among trees.
Plate 41
Photograph

The Potter House Atlanta

Date: 1864
Description: View of heavily damaged house and felled trees after General Sherman's army passed through.
Plate 38
Photograph

Battlefield of Atlanta, GA July 22nd 1864 No. 2

Date: 1866
Description: An empty battlefield with posts sticking out from an earthworks in the foreground.
Plate 37
Photograph

Battlefield of Atlanta, GA July 22nd 1864 No. 1

Date: 1866
Description: An empty battlefield with debris among trees.
Plate 36
Photograph

Entrance to Fort McPhearson

Date: 
Description: A horse and carriage at the entrance to Fort McPhearson with stone posts and a gazebo.
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with several cannons behind earthworks. A Union soldier stands near one of the cannons.
Plate 40
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 1

Date: 1864
Description: View looking out from one of the Confederate defenses around the outside of the city. Wooden palisades surround the earthworks. Houses and other buildings ...

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