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This is the moment the first Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority train car was transferred to land in New Orleans after its departure from France. The trains for MARTA’s Rapid Transit track were manufactured by Société Franco-Belge.…

The clip begins with a January 12 press conference during which reporters question Governor Ernest Vandiver about a January 11 riot at the University of Georgia. The clip begins with a January 12 press conference during which reporters question…

UGA police found David Braun on campus in his Vandiver Hall room on January 14, 2014, after police met a locked door to his room and went in using a key. The deceased student’s suitemate Tevin Reeves said he alerted housing officials after he had not…

Joe Brown Hall was once a student dorm. However, after the 1971 Thanksgiving break, 26 year old UGA student Stanley Park Haddock from Atlanta was found dead. Haddock committed suicided by hanging himself from his dorm closet. The UGA police confirmed…

Joe Brown Hall was constructed in 1932 and named after Joseph Emerson Brown. Joseph E. Brown was an attorney and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Georgia. He was a secessionist who lead Georgia into the Confederacy in 1861. After…

Mary Lyndon Hall is named after Mary Dorothy Lyndon, the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia. Mary Lyndon received her master’s degree in education from UGA in 1914, although women were not admitted to UGA as regular…

Mary Lyndon Hall was built in 1937 as the second dormitory to house females at the University of Georgia, with the construction of Soule Hall in 1920 being the first. Mary Lyndon Hall was built on UGA’s south campus near Soule Hall, and it was…

A transcript of the court session between Holmes and Hunter vs Danner. Judge Bootle ordered for admission of the plaintiffs, breaking over a hundred year segregation of the institution. The image is the transcript of the plaintiff's statements.

Found in the Special Collections, this is a telegram sent to Governor Vandiver by Georgia businessmen urging him to keep public schools open. Closing public schools can severely hurt the economy of Georgia, and therefore, it was in the interest of…

In the year 1961, The University of Georgia began the journey to integrate after being a segregated public institution for one hundred and seventy-six years. The University of Georgia received a large number of letters against their decision to…