Women in City Government, Atlanta Georgia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in City Government, Atlanta Georgia write by Atlanta Community Relations Commission. This book was released on 1973. Women in City Government, Atlanta Georgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hope and Danger in the New South City
Hope and Danger in the New South City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hope and Danger in the New South City write by Georgina Hickey. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Hope and Danger in the New South City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women--black and white--emerged as a visible new component of the city's population. As maids and cooks, secretaries and factory workers, these women served the "better classes" in their homes and businesses. They were enthusiastic patrons of the city's new commercial amusements and the mothers of Atlanta's burgeoning working classes. In response to women's growing public presence, as Georgina Hickey reveals, Atlanta's boosters, politicians, and reformers created a set of images that attempted to define the lives and contributions of working women. Through these images, city residents expressed ambivalence toward Atlanta's growth, which, although welcome, also threatened the established racial and gender hierarchies of the city. Using period newspapers, municipal documents, government investigations, organizational records, oral histories, and photographic evidence, Hope and Danger in the New South City relates the experience of working-class women across lines of race--as sources of labor, community members, activists, pleasure seekers, and consumers of social services--to the process of urban development.
Organization and Administration of the City Government of Atlanta, Ga. (exclusive of Health and Educational Departments)
Organization and Administration of the City Government of Atlanta, Ga. (exclusive of Health and Educational Departments) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organization and Administration of the City Government of Atlanta, Ga. (exclusive of Health and Educational Departments) write by Bureau of Municipal Research (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1912. Organization and Administration of the City Government of Atlanta, Ga. (exclusive of Health and Educational Departments) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Sketch of the Government of the City of Atlanta, Georgia
A Sketch of the Government of the City of Atlanta, Georgia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sketch of the Government of the City of Atlanta, Georgia write by J. Forsythe Gordy. This book was released on 1947. A Sketch of the Government of the City of Atlanta, Georgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Belle of Ashby Street
The Belle of Ashby Street - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Belle of Ashby Street write by Lorraine Nelson Spritzer. This book was released on 2008-06-01. The Belle of Ashby Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This biography of the first woman to be elected to Congress from the state of Georgia is more than the story of one woman's challenge of the political establishment. It also covers professional women in the modern South, southern liberalism in the New Deal era and beyond, and the gathering forces of racial change in the era immediately preceding the civil rights movement. A courageous and high-spirited woman, Helen Douglas Mankin drove an ambulance in France in 1918, made a daring cross-country motor-car tour with her sister in 1922, and was one of the first women to practice law before the state bar. Her political career began in 1936, when she was elected to the state legislature from Atlanta. During her four terms in office she worked for progressive legislation in the areas of child welfare, education, electoral reform, and women's rights. In 1946 when a special election was called to fill the unexpired term of Fifth District Congressman Robert Ramspeck, Helen Mankin left the legislature to seek the office. Of the seventeen candidates in the race, only Mankin actively sought the support of the black community, and she won the seat by a margin smaller than her vote in the heavily black Ashby Street precinct of Atlanta. Talmadge dubbed her "the Belle of Ashby Street" and belittled "the spectacle of Atlanta Negroes sending a Congresswoman to Washington." She was renominated in the no longer all-white Democratic primary of July 1946, winning more popular votes than her nearest opponent, but the entrenched political forces in the state unified to orchestrate her defeat and her opponent claimed victory. Although her tenure in Congress was brief and she never again held office, her legacy is one of courage and conviction in an era that saw many changes in the South and the nation.
