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  • New Resource: Social Explorer

    The University Library now has access to Social Explorer, an easy to use demographic and mapping database.  Social Explorer contains U.S. Census information from 1790...
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  • New Resource: Encyclopedia of Human Rights

    Georgia State University Library now has access to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, an online reference work that “offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of...
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  • Considering a Career in Political Science?

    Are you planning an academic career related to the discipline of political science? If so, consider learning more about the history of the discipline, including...
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  • Public Transit, Ownership, and Labor in the United States, 1935-1975 – March 3rd, 2010

    Are you a MARTA rider? Are you concerned about its lack of financial support, its reliability of service and the history of the laborers who...
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  • The “Black Socrates” of the Harlem Renaissance – March 2, 2010

    “Politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea,” said activist Hubert Harrison, the subject of an upcoming campus lecture by biographer Jeffrey...
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    • African American Studies
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  • African-American Labor History: The National Domestic Workers Union records

            The National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU) was founded in Atlanta in 1968 by Dorothy Bolden, who wanted to set standards for salaries and benefits...
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  • African-American Labor History: the Association of Colored Railway Trainmen records

    The Association of Colored Railway Trainmen records (ACTA), 1918-1936, are held by Georgia State University’s Southern Labor Archives and consist of records of the ACTA...
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  • New IEEE Xplore Coming Soon

    IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and...
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  • African-American Labor History: Oral History Collections in the Southern Labor Archives

    In addition to manuscripts, photographs, and labor union records, the Southern Labor Archives collects oral histories, which preserve first-person accounts of the successes and struggles of...
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  • New Publications from the School of Social Work

    Dr. Nancy Kropf and Dr. Peter Lyons of the School of Social Work have recently published books and articles that are accessible via the University...
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