Joan Titus Collection

Dublin Core

Subject

African Americans--History

Politics and Public Policy

United States--Civil rights

Description

The majority of the collection includes interviews gathered by Joan Titus relating to Lillian Smith's life and legacy. Also included in this collection are interviews conducted by Joan Titus in March 1962 with Atlanta civic and political leaders, including Ivan Allan, William Hartsfield, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorimer Douglas Milton, and Reverend Williams Holmes Borders, regarding African American business leaders. Also in March 1962, Titus interviewed Dr. Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist, about the effect of school desegregation on children. Excerpts of the Coles interview were used in Time-Life's radio program "The Children Should be Heard".

Biographical Note
Joan Titus served as a researcher at Time Magazine from 1956 to 1960; researcher and associate producer of radio news broadcasts and television documentaries for Time-Life Broadcast Inc. from 1961 to 1966. In 1967 and 1970, she received research grants for a Lillian Smith biography from the Field Foundation.

Historical Note
Lillian Smith (1897-1966), author, lecturer, and human rights advocate, was born in Jasper, Florida, and resided in Rabun County, Georgia. She wrote the novel Strange Fruit, to much acclaim, as well as Killers of the Dream.

For more information see the article Lillian Smith in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.