Southern Historical Collections
Emory has collected manuscripts, archives and rare books related to Southern history for nearly 100 years. MARBL’s collections are particularly strong in the history of the American Civil War and the history of the civil rights and post-civil rights eras. Highlights include the following collections:
Civil rights and post-civil rights
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1968-2002
- Vincent Harding, founder of the Institute of the Black World
- Doris A. Derby, one of the founders of the Free Southern Theater
- Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution
Civil War
- Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens
- Georgia Poet Laureate Loula Kendall Rogers
- More than 200 Confederate and Union soldiers’ papers
Georgia politicians, civic leaders, and philanthropists
- Georgia Senator Sam Nunn
- Coca-Cola president Robert W. Woodruff
- Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield
- Department store owner Richard B. Rich
Southern religion
- Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild
- Methodist missionary Young John Allen
- A significant collection of John Wesley
- Rare meeting minutes and pamphlets published by southern African American congregations
Women activists
- Human rights activists Frances Freeborn Pauley and Eliza K. Paschall
- Georgia Woman’s Christian Temperance Association
- Suffragist Eleonore Raoul, the first female graduate of Emory’s law school
- League of Women Voters of Dekalb County
Other notable southern collections include the papers of
- Journalist and author Joel Chandler Harris
- Golfing great Bobby Jones
- Emory president and Methodist bishop Warren A. Candler
- The J. Durelle Boles Collection of Southern Imprints
