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.
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A detailed model of the Hartfield Airport. Written on recto: "HARTSFIELD ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: When Atlanta's new airport opens in September 1980 (one mile or 1.6 kilometers from the present site) it will be the largest passenger terminal complex in the world. Its twin terminal buildings, International Terminal and four 26-gate concourses initially can handle more than 55 million people per year, and 109 widebodied aircraft simultaneously. A subterranean transportation system will move a projected 300,000 passengers and visitors per day between terminals and concourses in under five minutes. (Permission to reproduce this photograph is granted in return for credit to the ATLANTA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU.)
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
Hartsfield International Airport Model, 1979
Date Created
1979
Description
A detailed model of the Hartfield Airport. Written on recto: "HARTSFIELD ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: When Atlanta's new airport opens in September 1980 (one mile or 1.6 kilometers from the present site) it will be the largest passenger terminal complex in the world. Its twin terminal buildings, International Terminal and four 26-gate concourses initially can handle more than 55 million people per year, and 109 widebodied aircraft simultaneously. A subterranean transportation system will move a projected 300,000 passengers and visitors per day between terminals and concourses in under five minutes. (Permission to reproduce this photograph is granted in return for credit to the ATLANTA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU.)
Subject
Buildings and grounds, Airports, African American mayors
Collection
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
Maynard Jackson and others visit the Atlanta midfield terminal construction site.
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
Maynard Jackson and Others, 1979
Date Created
1979
Description
Maynard Jackson and others visit the Atlanta midfield terminal construction site.
Subject
African American mayors, African Americans--Politics and government, Portraits and people, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
Maynard Jackson shakes hands with an unidentified man at the Atlanta midfield terminal construction site.
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
Maynard Jackson and Unidentified Man, 1979
Date Created
1979
Description
Maynard Jackson shakes hands with an unidentified man at the Atlanta midfield terminal construction site.
Subject
African American mayors, African Americans--Politics and government, Portraits and people, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
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."
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records
Street Scene, circa 1938
Date Created
1935/1945
Description
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."
Subject
Buildings and grounds, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people
Collection
Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records