Title |
Date Created |
Author |
Creator |
Description |
Subject |
Collection |
Letter to Alice Smith From Bernice Johnson Reagon, May 25, 1979 |
1979-05-25 |
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942- |
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Correspondence from Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Culture Historian at the Smithsonian Institution to Alice Smith, Ruby's mother. The letter discusses Dr. Johnson Reagon's article about Ruby Doris Smith, and her plans to write a book on Ruby. 10 pages. |
African Americans--Civil rights, African American pioneers, African American student movements, Race discrimination, Groups and organizations |
Mary Ann Smith Wilson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism |
Letter to Dr. Mary Ann Smith Wilson From Vincent Fort, circa 1979 |
1978/1980 |
Fort, Vincent |
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Correspondence from Vincent Fort to Dr. Mary Ann Smith Wilson asking to complete an interview release form. The interview was about the Atlanta sit-in movement. 3 pages. |
African Americans--Civil rights, African American pioneers, African American student movements, Race discrimination, Groups and organizations |
Mary Ann Smith Wilson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism |
"Black Scholar Interviews Kathleen Cleaver", December 1971 |
1971-12 |
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Interview in The Black Scholar with Kathleen Cleaver by Sister Julie Herve, daughter of Richard Wright. Cleaver discusses Ruby Doris' commitment and struggles in the student movement. 5 pages. |
African Americans--Civil rights, African American pioneers, African American student movements, Race discrimination, Groups and organizations |
Mary Ann Smith Wilson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism |
Born to Rebel, Dr Benjamin Elijah Mays Autobiography, circa 1970 |
1969/1972 |
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Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights |
An excerpt from chapter 21, titled "I Can Sing Atlanta The Young Warriors", of Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays' book Born to Rebel An Autobiography. Dr. Mays talks about In 1960, students from Morehouse and Spelman colleges planned a sit-in demonstration to protest against the discrimination faced by Black people in Atlanta's downtown restaurants. The plan was inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins, where four students refused to leave a white store's lunch counter and sparked a revolution against segregation in eating establishments in the South. The six presidents of the Atlanta University Center were supportive of the students' plans, but each student was encouraged to make their own decision and be prepared to face the consequences for violating the unjust law. 14 pages. |
African Americans--Civil rights, African American student movements, Groups and organizations, Protest movements, African American students |
Mary Ann Smith Wilson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism |