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  • Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive

    The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive is a new resource available in the Digital Library of Georgia.  Users now have access to fourteen newspaper titles published...
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  • A. R. Marshall Arbitration Records open for research

    The A. R. Marshall Arbitration Records, part of the Southern Labor Archives, are now open for research in Special Collections and Archives. Dr. Alpheus Royall Marshall...
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  • Africa during the Cold War

    Are you interested in the history of Africa during the Cold War?  Larry Grubbs, a lecturer in GSU’s History Department, has just published a book...
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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 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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  • 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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  • Celebration for Dr. Merl E. Reed's New Book

    The library and the Department of History are cosponsoring an event to celebrate the publication of Dr. Merl E. Reed’s new book, Educating the Urban...
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