Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library

We’re saddened by the loss of Dr. Diane L. Fowlkes, a dear friend of the Georgia State University Library. Here’s our remembrance of Dr. Fowlkes who was a writer, scholar, and committed advocate for women’s rights: https://blog.library.gsu.edu//dr-diane-l-fowlkes-1939-2020/

Moon River.- Johnny Mercer. #MoonRiver #JohnnyMercer I was inspired to cover this song by Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library and The Johnny Mercer Foundation

Several photos from our collections were used in the FANTASTIC documentary #EastLakePBS. The documentary puts Atlanta's East Lake Meadows public housing community in the historical context of housing policy and racial discrimination. View hundreds of related images, maps, and texts on our Digital Collections site: https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu//nosort/ad/asc/ The documentary is now streaming: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/east-lake-meadows/

Read about the life and work of the recently deceased Millard Farmer in the AJC's obituary. "The gravel-voiced Atlanta lawyer was an outspoken crusader. He vehemently opposed capital punishment and exposed racial bias in the justice system." https://www.ajc.com//millard-farme/g0Anz9TpfpsCHoxuLiXYxJ/ To learn more about Farmer, you can visit our digital exhibit on his most famous case defending the Dawson Five. This online exhibit features newspaper clippings, images, dramatic oral history excerpts, and other primary sources from the case. https://exhibits.library.gsu.edu/curr/exhibits//dawsonfive

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"Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton makes a rare Atlanta appearance Friday night [2/7] to perform a tribute to Johnny Mercer with Atlanta hard bop trumpeter/singer Joe Gransden at the Rialto Center for the Arts. The concert will feature Sutton singing unpublished works by the legendary songwriter. She and Gransden will be joined by the Georgia State University Jazz Band. Many believe that Mercer a Savannah native is the greatest American pop lyricist, the co-author of such stan...dards as Moon River, Autumn Leaves, One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) and Accentuate the Positive. An exciting development is the discovery of fresh material by Georgia State University graduate student Marco Maritz in the university’s special collections and archives. One of the new songs has been rearranged as a ballad for Sutton, with the intriguing title of Fate Moves in Mysterious Ways." http://bit.ly/380nRau

Happy 75th anniversary to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra! We're proud to house their archives at Georgia State University Library. We dug into the ASO collection and scanned a ticket and program from their first concert. The pieces performed at that concert were: ROSSINI: Overture to L'Italiana in Algeri SIBELIUS: Finlandia, Opus 26, No. 7 BORODIN: In The Steppes of Central Asia... SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ("Unfinished") GOULD: "Hillbilly" from the Suite Americana BACH: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue TCHAIKOVSKY: Mvt. II, "Waltz" from Serenade for Stringsin C Major, Opus 48 See more

Next Friday (2/7) is the Johnny Mercer Tribute Concert at the Rialto Center for the Arts! Researcher and trumpet player Marco Maritz shares some unearthed gems from Mercer's archive that will be heard for the first time at the concert. He also discusses how working in the archives changed his process for arranging music https://blog.library.gsu.edu/2020/01/27/newarrangements/

Bar raids. Bombings. Bubba. Oh my. The LGBTQ-ATL exhibit you totally need to see but may not have known about Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Hey Bubba Dee!

We're closin' up shop at 6 today. Back on January 6th. Have a happy holidays and see y'all next year! https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu///id/84/rec/104

We're so excited that the online component of our Out in the Archives exhibition is now live! https://exhibits.library.gsu.edu//exhibits/show/out-in-the Below are some images from the publications section alongside excerpts from our oral histories for a bit of context: The Barb... "They were much more central part of the community than you might think. Three were the bars, the gay churches and the publications. There were glossies like Cruise. They came out of the tradition of guides to entertainment. And the Barb was more political oriented, community oriented. It would have all sorts of stuff, like warnings about bad drugs that were out on the streets, and whatever kind of political issues might be happening that was gay related" -Gil Robison Pulse "Pulse was where I learned much more about Atlanta’s gay sports scene, cause here comes softball; here comes the Dixie Bowling League. We had a volleyball group that played against teams from Amsterdam and Puerto Rico. Gay golfers hello!" -Gregg Daugherty Etcetera "A lot of what I did in my columns first of all was political commentary you know, think about this from a feminist lesbian womanist perspective and also my adventures in the world. Because here’s this out dyke: she goes here, and she does this. People put this on their blogs all the time now, but there were no blogs then." Maria Helena Dolan Guide "Guide was strongly the People’s magazine. And then I started writing Gadabout, which was about getting out and going. I had a racecar in my logo. I made a mix of it. It was going to shows, it was going to drag shows, it was going to the theater, it was going to dance, it was going to concerts. We had maps, and how to get to a place. This was the days before GPS! It was the first time where you have a little bit more toward the African American community in Atlanta. Because they created Black Pride right about then, and so we would do whole pieces on that." Gregg Daugherty