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John Wesley Dobbs Family papers

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Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates: Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974

Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism records

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Identifier: 228
Scope and Contents The records of Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism contains 38.49 linear feet of correspondence, organizational records, writings, and ephemera and publicity materials related to their efforts to inform the public about the racist and anti-Semitic views of  American white supremacist and white nationalist politician David Duke. Large portions of the collection are materials collected by LCARN as research used in their campaigns against David Duke. This includes materials...
Dates: Created: 1943-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1988-1992; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1990

Hale Smith papers

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Identifier: 667
Scope and Contents The Hale Smith papers cover the length of Smith's musical career, documenting his education at the Cleveland Institute of Music; his early career in Cleveland, particularly with the Karamu Theatre; his move to New York where he worked the jazz circuit with Dizzy Gillepsie and Chico Hamilton before he settled into his career as a music editor, an educator, and a copyright specialist; and the relationships he developed over time up to shortly before his death. Hale Smith maintained a...
Dates: Created: 1840-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984

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Butts, June Dobbs, 1928-2019 1
Clement, Josephine (Josephine Dobbs Clement), 1918-1998 1
Dobbs, Irene Thompson, 1885-1972 1
Dobbs, John Wesley, 1882-1961 1
Dobbs, Mattiwilda (Mattiwilda "Geekie" Dobbs Jazon), 1925-2015 1