PAULEY, FRANCES FREEBORN, 1905-
Frances Freeborn Pauley papers, 1919-1992
Manuscript Collection No. 659Papers, 1919-1993; 31.25 linear feet
Pauley (1906- ) worked as a poverty, social justice and civil rights activist and founded the Georgia Poverty Rights Organization. Her papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organizational records, subject files, clippings, and memorabilia collected by Pauley relating to the organizations and government agencies with which she was affiliated. These organizations include the following: League of Women Voters, Fund for Adult Education, HOPE (Help Our Public Education), Georgia Council on Human Relations, Georgia State Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Office of Civil Rights, Georgia Poverty Rights, and other allied organizations. The collection also includes subject files on topics including welfare, energy assistance, Georgia politics, AIDS, the death penalty, maternal and infant healthcare, and poverty issues in general. Pauley also collected numerous issues of Atlanta’s Poor People’s Newspaper, a newsletter of the Poverty Rights Office of Emmaus House, including the first edition issued in 1970.
Materials included here focus on the Georgia Council on Human Relations, Help Our Public Schools, the League of Women Voters, and a few Poor People's Newspapers from Emmaus House in Atlanta, Georgia.
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