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Massey Crowder Buchanan Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 465

Content Description

This collection consists of 3 Hollinger boxes of materials pertaining to the family and to bits of Columbus history. The Georgia School of Technology Yearbooks belonged to James Lewis Buchanan, the brother of Helen Buchanan Crowder. The UGA Pandora Yearbooks and the U.S. Navy Yearbooks belonged to Joseph Pearce Massey, the husband of Carolyn Crowder Massey. The newspaper articles about segregation and integration are from the 1950s of the Columbus newspapers.

Dates: 1925-1971

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Max Goodley and Wilford C. Foote Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 132

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one small box of materials containing the original manuscripts of Goodley's poems and novels and receipts and papers of Foote, including some personal letters.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Mayor’s Commission on Diversity Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 168

Scope and Contents

This collection comprises documents collected by Dr. Craig Lloyd while he served on the Mayor’s Commission on Diversity between 1996 and 2000. These papers include documents on the Black Heritage Trail, from subcommittees including the Eugene J. Bullard Memorial and Entertainment Subcommittees, notes and minutes from general membership meetings and papers dealing with the annual International Festival sponsored by the commission.

Dates: 1996 - 2000

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Frances Reich Brooks Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 123

Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs, postcards, letters and other material documenting the Reich, Shomburg and Brooks families of Columbus, Georgia.

Dates: 1890s-1960s

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

1410 Stark Avenue Collection

File

Identifier: MC 448

Content Description This small collection of one Hollinger box contains the photos of the house at 1410 Stark Ave in Columbus, Georgia, deeds, remodeling contracts, and landscaping plans. The house was occupied the longest by the Browne family, Rhodes and Nina and their children, from 1917 to 1987. Rhodes Browne was once a Mayor of Columbus. Some of these materials had been housed in MC 201. When new materials were added in 2022 in a sealed collection, it was decided to make a new separate collection to be more...

Dates: 1920s-1980s

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

McKenney Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 322

Scope and Contents

The materials in this small collection consist of 7 folders and a scrapbook, entitled Memory Book, of photographs of the family.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1918 - 1979

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

McPherson Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 422

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 3 boxes, 1 c.f., 1 oversize, and 1 artifact. The materials cover the years from the late 1800s to the 1980s. The collection includes photographs of family members of Blackmar, Bullard and McPherson families, documents, postcards, telegrams from well-known friends, business information and wills. There are a number of signatures of famous people on letters and notes. Blueprints of real estate holding are in the oversize Box 2. Box 3 contains the Shriner’s fez and...

Dates: 1863 - 1983

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Men's Progressive Club

File

Identifier: MC 391

Scope and Contents

This contains the programs for the annual recognition of the Club's Man of the Year for 1983 through 1996. Also included are: a blank application for membership; a list of Man of the Year recipients from 1950 through1995; an undated newspaper clipping regarding the annual award, and two sheets of paper containing parts of the constitution or perhaps the articles of incorporation of the Club.

Dates: 1983-1996

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Merryll Penson School Board Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 78

Scope and Contents This collection is arranged into two series. The first covers her activities as a member of the board of the Muscogee County School District (MCSD). Among the issues that the school board had to contend with during her tenure were: the change from appointed to elected school boards, the murder of Superintendent John Burns and choosing his successor, on-going desegregation lawsuits and the re-segregation of the public schools in the county. Series 2 covers her activities as the head of the...

Dates: 1974-2004

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Metro Columbus Urban League Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 87

Scope and Contents The Metro Columbus Urban League Collection consists of forty linear feet of material which documents the activities of the MCUL in the Columbus, bi-city area. The collection contains a wide range of materials of evidential and informational value from the MCUL's including letters, publications, and financial data, which date from 1971 to 1996.The first and most voluminous series, Administration, comprises twenty-three (23) linear feet of material. Included are materials that...

Dates: 1971-1996

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

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Massey Crowder Buchanan Family Collection

Max Goodley and Wilford C. Foote Collection

Mayor’s Commission on Diversity Collection

Frances Reich Brooks Collection

1410 Stark Avenue Collection

McKenney Family Collection

McPherson Family Collection

Men's Progressive Club

Merryll Penson School Board Collection

Metro Columbus Urban League Collection

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