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Leroy Johnson (1928-2019)
Crawford, Tom
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African American Civic Leaders; African American Civil Rights Workers; African American Lawyers; African American Legislators; African American Politicians; African American Teachers; African Americans; Atlanta; Atlanta (Ga.); Atlanta Public School System; Civic Leaders; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Demonstrations; Civil Rights Movements; Civil Rights Workers; Election; Elections; Fulton County. District Attorney Office; Georgia; Georgia. General Assembly. Senate; Government; Government Employees; History; Lawyers; Legislators; Local Elections; Mayors; Officials And Employees; Political Campaigns; Political Candidates; Politicians; Politics And Government; Race Relations; Sit Ins; Teachers
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Mary Frances Early (b. 1936)
Griffin, Joy
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African American Women; African American Women College Students; African American Women Musicians; African Americans; Alumni And Alumnae; Athens; Atlanta; Civil Rights; Georgia; Musicians; Segregation In Education; Universities; University Of Georgia; Women
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Donald Hollowell (1917-2004)
Hatfield, Edward A
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African American Civil Rights Workers; African American Lawyers; African American Leadership; African American Soldiers; African American Students; African American Universities And Colleges; African Americans; Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.); Athens; Atlanta; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movements; Civil Rights Workers; Depressions; Discrimination; Discrimination In Education; Discrimination In Public Accommodations; Discrimination In Restaurants; Donald L. Hollowell Foundation; Fort Benning (Ga.); Georgia; Government; History; Hollowell, Donald; Holmes, Hamilton, 1941; Hunter Gault, Charlayne; Jackson; Kansas; Lane College; Law And Legislation; Lawyers; Loyola University Of Chicago. School Of Law; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack On, 1941; Politics And Government; Race Discrimination; Race Relations; Racism; School Integration; Segregation; Segregation In Education; Segregation In Higher Education; Sit Ins; Tennessee; United States; United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th; United States. Army. European Theater Of Operations; United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Universities; University Of Georgia; World War, 1939 1945
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William G. Anderson (b. 1927)
Hatfield, Edward A
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African American Business Enterprises; African American Civic Leaders; African American Civil Rights Workers; African American Disc Jockeys; African American Educators; African American Physicians; African American Political Activists; African American Professional Employees; African American Sailors; African American Surgeons; African American Teachers; African Americans; Alabama; Albany; Albany (Ga.); Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.); American Osteopathic Association; Art Centre Hospital (Detroit, Mich.); Atlanta; Atlanta College Of Mortuary Science; Bus Terminals; Campaigns; Civic Leaders; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Demonstrations; Civil Rights Movements; Civil Rights Workers; College Of Osteopathic Medicine Of The Pacific; Criterion Club (Albany, Ga.); Detroit; Direct Action; Disc Jockeys; Discrimination; Discrimination In Public Accommodations; Discrimination In Restaurants; Drugstores; Educators; Flint Osteopathic Hospital (Mich.); Fort Valley State College (Ga.); Georgia; Georgia Atlanta; Government; Harlem Cut Rate Drugs (Albany, Ga.); High School Teachers; History; Kirksville College Of Osteopathic Medicine; Medical Care; Medical Offices; Michigan; Michigan State University. College Of Osteopathic Medicine; Montgomery; National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People; Nonviolence; Osteopathic Physicians; Philippines; Physicians; Political Activists; Political Participation; Politics And Government; Professional Employees; Protest Marches; Race Discrimination; Race Relations; Sailors; Segregation In Education; Segregation In Transportation; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Still College Of Osteopathy; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Suffrage; Surgeons; Undertakers And Undertaking; United States; United States. Navy; United States. Navy. Hospital Corps; Urban League Of Albany (Ga.); Voter Registration; Voting; World War, 1939 1945
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Coretta Scott King (1927-2006)
McCarty, Laura
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Affirmative Action Programs; African American Civic Leaders; African American Civil Rights Workers; African American Musicians; African American Singers; African American Social Reformers; African American Women; African American Women Civic Leaders; African American Women Civil Rights Workers; African American Women Musicians; African American Women Singers; African American Women Social Reformers; African Americans; Alabama; Anti Apartheid Activists; Anti Apartheid Movements; Assassination; Atlanta; Awards; Bombings; Boston; Boycotts; Buses; Busing For School Integration; Civic Leaders; Civil Disobedience; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Demonstrations; Civil Rights Movements; Civil Rights Workers; Concerts; Conspiracies; Crypts; Death And Burial; Death And Burial King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968; Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.); Disarmament; Discrimination; Discrimination In Employment; Dynamite; Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.); Education; Education (Graduate); Equal Rights Amendments; Equality; Equality Before The Law; Fairness; Fund Raising; Georgia; Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.); Government; Governmental Investigations; Graduate Work; History; Holidays; Human Rights; Investigation; Jim's Grill (Memphis, Tenn.); Justice; King, Coretta Scott, 1927 2006; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968; Law And Legislation; Liberty; Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tenn.); March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963; Marion; Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change; Martin Luther King, Jr., Day; Mass Meetings; Massachusetts; Memphis; Montgomery; Montgomery (Ala.); Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955 1956; Montgomery Improvement Association; Music; Musicians; National Organization For Women; New Birth Missionary Baptist Church (Lithonia, Ga.); New England Conservatory Of Music; Nobel Prize Winners; Nobel Prizes; Nonviolence; Ohio; Passive Resistance; Peace; Political Crimes And Offenses; Political Violence; Politics And Government; Poor People's Campaign; Protest Marches; Race Discrimination; Race Relation; Race Relations; Rotundas; Sanitation; Sanitation Workers; Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968; Segregation; Segregation In Transportation; Sex Discrimination Against Women; Singers; Social Justice; Social Reformers; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Southern States; Strikes And Lockouts; Study And Teaching (Graduate); Tennessee; United States; Universities; Universities And Colleges; Violence; Wages; Washington (D.C.); Women; Women Civic Leaders; Women Civil Rights Workers; Women Musicians; Women Singers; Women Social Reformers; Women Strike For Peace; Yellow Springs
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Andrew Young (b. 1932)
Moye, J. Todd
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African American Civil Rights Workers; African American Clergy; African American Legislators; African Americans; Atlanta; Civil Rights; Georgia; Government; Mayors; Politics And Government; United States
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Jesse Hill (b. 1927)
Myers, Barton
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African American Businesspeople; African American Civic Leaders; African American Civil Rights Workers; African Americans; Atlanta; Civil Rights; Georgia
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Ernest Vandiver: Hunter-Holmes controversy
WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
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African American College Students; African American Women College Students; African Americans; Athens; Athens (Ga.); Atlanta; Bootle, William A. (William Augustus), 1902 2005; Civil Rights; College Integration; College Students; Georgia; Governors; History; Holmes, Hamilton, 1941; Hunter Gault, Charlayne; Politicians; Press Conferences; Race Relations; Race Riots; Segregation In Education; Segregation In Higher Education; Universities; University Of Georgia; Vandiver, S. Ernest (Samuel Ernest), 1918; Women
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Alice Coachman: patriotism
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African American Athletes; African American Women Athletes; African Americans; Athletes; Atlanta; Civil Rights; Coachman, Alice; Georgia; Jumping; Olympic Games (14 Th : 1948 : London, England); Patriotism; Segregation; Social Conditions; Track And Field; United States; Women; Women Athletes; Women Track And Field Athletes
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Alice Coachman: segregation
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African American Athletes; African American Women Athletes; African Americans; Athletes; Atlanta; Civil Rights; Coachman, Alice; Georgia; Jumping; Olympic Games (14 Th : 1948 : London, England); Segregation; Social Conditions; Track And Field; United States; Women; Women Athletes; Women Track And Field Athletes
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