The Maynard Jackson mayoral administrative records are extensive and consist of materials spanning the years 1968 to 1994. Within this digital collection are photographs, general correspondence, Mayoral campaign materials, and printed and published materials and correspondence related to the Atlanta Child Murders. The Atlanta Child Murders subseries in the Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records chronicles the time period between 1979-1981 when multiple young black children and adults were murdered in the city of Atlanta. The murders garnered national news coverage and caused panic across the country. The records in this digital collection reflect the response to the tragedy that were both created, collected and sent to the Atlanta Mayor's office during Maynard Jackson's second mayoral term.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
May 28, 2020

Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records

The Maynard Jackson mayoral administrative records are extensive and consist of materials spanning the years 1968 to 1994. Within this digital collection are photographs, general correspondence, Mayoral campaign materials, and printed and published materials and correspondence related to the Atlanta Child Murders. The Atlanta Child Murders subseries in the Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records chronicles the time period between 1979-1981 when multiple young black children and adults were murdered in the city of Atlanta. The murders garnered national news coverage and caused panic across the country. The records in this digital collection reflect the response to the tragedy that were both created, collected and sent to the Atlanta Mayor's office during Maynard Jackson's second mayoral term.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.

The Morehouse College campus, 1938. John Wesley Dobbs attended but did not graduate from Atlanta Baptist College, now known as Morehouse College, due to family responsibilities. According to his grandson in a speech delivered at Spelman College, Dobbs did not graduate "so he could always claim that he made it without having to graduate from college and that he was a self-made man."
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Pictured here in his senior class photo, the Reverend Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Sr. graduated from Morehouse College and then studied at the Garrett School of Divinity of Northwestern University. His father, A. S. Jackson, was a member of Atlanta University's charter class.
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Maynard and Jeanne Jackson sit on stairs outside of a house.
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Mattiwilda Dobbs seated with her family around her.
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The Dobbs family at a reunion gathering outside of a house.
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John and Irene Dobbs sit together on a couch on their 50th anniversary.
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Maynard Jackson. Written on recto: Best wishes, Maynard Jackson
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Maynard Jackson at his graduation.
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All six of Irene Thompson and John Wesley Dobbs' daughters graduated from Spelman College. They are pictured here singing around a piano.
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In June 1964, Jackson graduates from law school at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) the same day that his sister graduated from Hillside High School in Durham. Standing between them is their mother, Dr. Jackson, chair of the Foreign Language Department at NCCU. Following the death of her husband, Irene Jackson returned to the University of Toulouse and earned her doctorate in French in 1958.
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Maynard Jackson delivers a speech at Atlanta International Airport.
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Maynard Jackson speaks at the Atlanta International Airport.
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Robert A. "Bob" Holmes, an Atlanta University professor and Georgia state representative.
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Julian Bond, David Scott, and Maynard Jackson at a reception.
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Irene Dobbs portrait.
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Maynard Jackson portrait.
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Maynard Jackson sits on a desk in his mayor's office.
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Maynard Jackson sits on a desk in his mayor's office.
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Maynard Jackson stands and talks with two other men at a reception.
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Maynard Jackson walks with group of unidentified men and boys.
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