This item is a letter from General Sherman to the Quartermaster General. Sherman is described as “high strung, quotable, irritable, irreligious, prone to bouts of anxiety and depression” (McDonough). Although most people know General Sherman’s name…
Mary Frances Early records her daily life from her time the University of Georgia . Her entries provide insight to her raw emotions of the discrimination she experienced.
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were suspended from UGA following a riot that ensued outside of their dorms demanding they leave. This is a letter from some staff at UGA stating how that is unfair to Hunter and Holmes.
A newspaper written by Hunter herself just days after desegregating the University of Georgia accounts how some people are beginning to embrace her. Letters from multiple people unveil how influential Hunter was, and not only at UGA.
Photograph of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first black students to enroll at the University of Georgia. Having met all qualifications for enrolling at the University of Georgia, they are pictured here riding in a car on their first day…
This letter was sent by Horace Park, Union Army chaplain and director of the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, to Mack, the rest of the name does not show up. But we can determine that Mack is someone else in the Union Army, because Park tells…