Gladstone Lewis Chandler was an English professor at Morehouse College from 1931 until his death in 1965. During his 34 year tenure, he served as the faculty representative for the Maroon Tiger, the student-run newspaper, and taught three generations of Morehouse graduates, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Outside of his career as a professor, Chandler was also involved in the Atlanta community as an active civic worker and the leader of campaigns for the YMCA, the Community Chest, and the UNCF. He was a member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church as active participant in the Vestry and the Men's Club. He also served as president of the neighborhood club Fountain Drive-Morris Brown Drive community club , where he led a successful battle to prevent a highway from being built through the neighborhood. Beyond his civic activity, Chandler was the first African American to conduct a campaign for a mayoral candidate in the city of Atlanta. The photographs in this collection document the personal and professional life of Gladstone Chandler and the Chandler family. 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. 
Jun 4, 2019

Chandler Family Papers

Gladstone Lewis Chandler was an English professor at Morehouse College from 1931 until his death in 1965. During his 34 year tenure, he served as the faculty representative for the Maroon Tiger, the student-run newspaper, and taught three generations of Morehouse graduates, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Outside of his career as a professor, Chandler was also involved in the Atlanta community as an active civic worker and the leader of campaigns for the YMCA, the Community Chest, and the UNCF. He was a member of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church as active participant in the Vestry and the Men's Club. He also served as president of the neighborhood club Fountain Drive-Morris Brown Drive community club , where he led a successful battle to prevent a highway from being built through the neighborhood. Beyond his civic activity, Chandler was the first African American to conduct a campaign for a mayoral candidate in the city of Atlanta. The photographs in this collection document the personal and professional life of Gladstone Chandler and the Chandler family.

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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Julius Alexander in front of backdrop at station. Written on verso: My dear darling Beth, here is another picture that I had taken at the station when I came from Alabama last summer. I enclosed two or three that I had taken when I was about four or five...please return the old ones that I had taken when I was five...you may keep the one that I had taken last summer. Beth my darling you, may I mean may you, have many sweet dreams...and I'm giving this picture with all my love. - Julius; First sweetheart, Julius Alexander.
Chandler Family Papers
Julius Alexander, circa 1948
Date Created
1905-05-01
Description
Julius Alexander in front of backdrop at station. Written on verso: My dear darling Beth, here is another picture that I had taken at the station when I came from Alabama last summer. I enclosed two or three that I had taken when I was about four or five...please return the old ones that I had taken when I was five...you may keep the one that I had taken last summer. Beth my darling you, may I mean may you, have many sweet dreams...and I'm giving this picture with all my love. - Julius; First sweetheart, Julius Alexander.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. holding Beth Angela Warren as a toddler and facing camera.
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. and Beth Angela Warren, circa 1966
Date Created
1905-05-16
Description
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. holding Beth Angela Warren as a toddler and facing camera.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American men, African American children, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Portrait of Gladstone L. Chandler. Written on verso: G.L. Chandler student at Middlebury. Late 1920's.
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone L. Chandler, circa 1920
Date Created
1918/1922
Description
Portrait of Gladstone L. Chandler. Written on verso: G.L. Chandler student at Middlebury. Late 1920's.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American men
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone L. Chandler college graduation photograph.
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone L. Chandler, 1926
Date Created
1924/1928
Description
Gladstone L. Chandler college graduation photograph.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American men
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Erdie Chandler on stairs. Written on recto: Me (Winston Salem) 1928. First family view. This is the picture which Channie sent to his pal sister Rose for her & the rest of the family to see his love, Erdie whom he had talked so much about. Written on verso: With thoughts of "five in one". one can always smile. "Ducky". This girl is crazy about me and I'm crazy about her - no kidding! Keep this and never lose it, for it is the picture [...] Erdie. In our losses to death we had been great friends, had become real pals, now inseparable in our respective griefs.
Chandler Family Papers
Erdie Chandler, 1928
Date Created
1928
Description
Erdie Chandler on stairs. Written on recto: Me (Winston Salem) 1928. First family view. This is the picture which Channie sent to his pal sister Rose for her & the rest of the family to see his love, Erdie whom he had talked so much about. Written on verso: With thoughts of "five in one". one can always smile. "Ducky". This girl is crazy about me and I'm crazy about her - no kidding! Keep this and never lose it, for it is the picture [...] Erdie. In our losses to death we had been great friends, had become real pals, now inseparable in our respective griefs.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American women
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Erdie Chandler standing on campus next to Gladstone "Micke" Chandler, Jr. as a toddler. Written on verso: Mother and son Mickey at 1 yr. A.U. campus stroll snapped by Frankie Adams.
Chandler Family Papers
Erdie Chandler and Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr., circa 1934
Date Created
1931/1936
Description
Erdie Chandler standing on campus next to Gladstone "Micke" Chandler, Jr. as a toddler. Written on verso: Mother and son Mickey at 1 yr. A.U. campus stroll snapped by Frankie Adams.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children, African American women
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Portrait of Estelle Massey Osborn attached to card. Written on recto: To Erdie Chandler. Les you forget 'Stella. Xmas '33. The Columbia U friend who spoke at Abbot Academy at a time the school was ready for a black student. Through Beth's trail led her northern educational trail. Estelle Massey Osborn blazed the trail in professional nursing.
Chandler Family Papers
Estelle Massey Osborn, 1933
Date Created
1933
Description
Portrait of Estelle Massey Osborn attached to card. Written on recto: To Erdie Chandler. Les you forget 'Stella. Xmas '33. The Columbia U friend who spoke at Abbot Academy at a time the school was ready for a black student. Through Beth's trail led her northern educational trail. Estelle Massey Osborn blazed the trail in professional nursing.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American women
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. & Beth I. Chandler as children on porch. Written on verso: Beth at 3 months about to go for an outing with brother. Mickey claimed her from birth as belonging to him.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler & Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr., circa 1938
Date Created
1935/1942
Description
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. & Beth I. Chandler as children on porch. Written on verso: Beth at 3 months about to go for an outing with brother. Mickey claimed her from birth as belonging to him.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as toddler on bed. Written on verso: Beth I. Chandler 1st year of life - developing our time in old "Webster" house on Beckwith St. where Minnie Lee (now Dyer) lived with us and cared for her while studying at nearby Morris Brown College.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1939
Date Created
1935/1942
Description
Beth I. Chandler as toddler on bed. Written on verso: Beth I. Chandler 1st year of life - developing our time in old "Webster" house on Beckwith St. where Minnie Lee (now Dyer) lived with us and cared for her while studying at nearby Morris Brown College.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as toddler on bed.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1939
Date Created
1935/1942
Description
Beth I. Chandler as toddler on bed.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as toddler on bed.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1939
Date Created
1935/1942
Description
Beth I. Chandler as toddler on bed.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as a child posing in front of door. Written on verso: 1138 Fountain Dr. Age 3 1/2. Ready for church school. Central Methodist (first photo at new house).
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1941
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Beth I. Chandler as a child posing in front of door. Written on verso: 1138 Fountain Dr. Age 3 1/2. Ready for church school. Central Methodist (first photo at new house).
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Written on verso: Members of a cast from the play "He Coached".
Chandler Family Papers
Cast of "He Coached" Play, circa 1940
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Written on verso: Members of a cast from the play "He Coached".
Subject
Portraits and people, Theatre and dance, African American men, African American women
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. standing with unidentified child in the grass. Written on verso: Morehouse campus.
Chandler Family Papers
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr., circa 1940
Date Created
1937-1943
Description
Gladstone "Mickey" Chandler, Jr. standing with unidentified child in the grass. Written on verso: Morehouse campus.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Written on recto and verso: Early organization of English Teachers in Negro Colleges.
Chandler Family Papers
Early Organization of the Teachers in Negro Colleges, circa 1940
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Written on recto and verso: Early organization of English Teachers in Negro Colleges.
Subject
Portraits and people, Faculty and staff, African American universities and colleges, Buildings and grounds, African American men, African American women
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler standing in street at age 2. Written on verso: Morehouse campus age 2. Bro. Mickey in background. 5 1/2.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1940
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Beth I. Chandler standing in street at age 2. Written on verso: Morehouse campus age 2. Bro. Mickey in background. 5 1/2.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as a child sitting on sofa. Written on verso: In new house at Fountain Dr. Age 3.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1941
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Beth I. Chandler as a child sitting on sofa. Written on verso: In new house at Fountain Dr. Age 3.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children, Interior decoration
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Kindergarten class at Spelman College. Written on recto: Ray Woodruff, [Frank Adair] Mickey age 6. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Chandler Family Papers
Spelman College Kindergarten Nursery, circa 1940
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Kindergarten class at Spelman College. Written on recto: Ray Woodruff, [Frank Adair] Mickey age 6. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as a child sitting on stairs. Written on verso: A return to Morehouse (Graves Hall) days where she began walking at 10 mo.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1940
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Beth I. Chandler as a child sitting on stairs. Written on verso: A return to Morehouse (Graves Hall) days where she began walking at 10 mo.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler as child on grass. Written on verso: Morehouse campus day.
Chandler Family Papers
Beth I. Chandler, circa 1940
Date Created
1937/1943
Description
Beth I. Chandler as child on grass. Written on verso: Morehouse campus day.
Subject
Portraits and people, African American children, Buildings and grounds
Collection
Chandler Family Papers