African Americans in Atlanta:
Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
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Essay Sections:
Adrienne Herndon | Recommended Resources


Recommended Resources:

Print Resources
Carter, Edward R. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta, GA. Atlanta, 1894.

David Belasco to Anne Du Bignon, New York, 8 January 1904, in Herndon Family Papers, The Herndon Home.

Doyle, Don H. New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Du Bois, W. E. B. Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903.

Henderson, Alexa. Atlanta Life Insurance Company: Guardian of Black Economic Dignity. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Kuhn, Clifford M., Harlon E. Joye, and E. Bernard West. Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

"Life Works Opens for Southern Woman." Boston Traveler (1904).

Meier, August and David Lewis. "History of the Negro Upper Class in Atlanta, Georgia 1890-1958." Journal of Negro Education 28 (spring 1959):128-39.

Merritt, Carole. The Herndons: An Atlanta Family. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

"Miss Du Bigon Reads Cleopatra." Boston Herald (1904).

Links
"Atlanta Race Riot of 1906." The New Georgia Encyclopedia.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3033

"Atlanta Life Insurance Company." In The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-862

"Atlanta University Center District." National Park Service Travel Itinerary for Atlanta. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/aud.htm

Guide to W.E.B. Du Bois papers at University of Massachusetts. http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/dubois/index.htm

The Herndon Home, National Historic Landmark. http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/her.htm

Essay Sections:
Adrienne Herndon | Recommended Resources


Originally Published: 20 March 2004 | Last Revised: 15 November 2004 | Revision History

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