Sweat, Dan E., 1933-1997

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Dan E. Sweat, Jr. (1933-1997) spent over three decades in public service and city development in Atlanta, including 15 years as president of the nonprofit corporation Central Atlanta Progress. His papers include speeches, correspondence, and newspaper clippings and document his involvement with many Atlanta organizations.

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Carter Center; CF Foundation; Atlanta Project's perceived threat to non-profit groups; President Jimmy Carter's meeting with the Concerned Black Clergy; Reverend Joseph Lowery; Bishop John Hurst Adams; Tim McDonald; John Cox; United Way; Mark O'Connell; relationship between the Carter Center, Atlanta Project, and the Olympic movement; Juan Samaranch; Billy Payne; A.D. Frazier; Alliance for Human Services; ACOG; Bob Holder; Bob Strickland;...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Family background in Waycross; coaching; childhood activities: baseball, Key Club, school work; attitudes toward race growing up; decision to attend the Atlanta Division of the University of Georgia (now Georgia State University); Dr. George M. Sparks; Dr. Bill Suttles; working for Miller, Bryant, and Pierce; working for Walter Richards at the Atlanta Novelty Company; Bishop Arthur Moore of the North Georgia Methodist Conference; studying...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn and Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Sweat as reporter covering 1957 Atlanta bus "ride-in"; Reverend William Holmes Borders; other reporters: Billy Key, John Pennington; Rich's; Paschal's; Governor George Romney; Auburn Avenue; Mayor Ivan Allen; Points of Light Foundation; Richard Schubert; Charlie Emmerich; Aubrey Morris; covering the Georgia Waterways Commission, Chattahoochee River, Buford Dam issues; Joe Martin; Bedford-Pine project; Chattahoochee Corridor...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Election involving Charlie Emmerich (Sweat discusses dynamics of the election); OCS; Dekalb County; John Leak, Sweat's assistant at Central Atlanta Progress; C and S Bank; Bedford Pine and Rio; Park Central Communities; Dynamics of Dekalb County Politics; differences in South and North Dekalb County; Martin and Larry Gellerstedt; dynamics of County Politics; Al Wehunt; insight into the constituency of Dekalb county; Mayor...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: City reception involving Michael Jackson and other city dignitaries; immunization and public health issues; Chief Elderin Bell; President Carter; Ruby Lucas; Turner Board; John Hardermann; Carter Center involvement in the PR reception; dynamics of initiating the Atlanta Project; Gene Downing; Harold Mckenzie; CDC; the involvement of Emory with The Atlanta Project; discussion of the Carter Center and Emory handling finances...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Leadership and development of the EOA; Sweat's experience as a Naval officer and how he learned leadership from that; philosophy on what it takes to be a good leader; how he put together and supported programs; dynamics and ramifications of city government; Sweat and Mayor Allen; the weak mayor system and the Alderman of Atlanta; dynamics of securing federal funding and grants; structure of city government; organization and financing of mass...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Rabbis Epstein, Geffen, and Rothschild; Archbishop Halverman and Randy Taylor of the Central Presbyterian Church; Sugarman; synagogues of Atlanta in reference to a civic power structure; Reformed Church of New York; Buddy Innis; Tom Cousins and CAP; CAS task force; Bill Johnson of the Ritz Carlton; John Wieland; Andy Young's book on the SCLC and black Baptist preachers; Congregationalists; Timothy McDonald; Cameron...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Various constituencies for which Sweat has worked--county interests, the poor, business interests; Central Atlanta Progress; Sweat's political identification; Chattahoochee River Corridor Plan; Marvin Arrington; Sweat's support from activist neighborhood people; getting hired at Central Atlanta Progress; Homeless Task Force; Luce Group and Charles Loudermilk support Andrew Young; Alvin Ferst of Rich's; Billy Stern; Atlanta Regional...

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Interviewed by Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Bedford-Pine; Central Atlanta Progress; Lee Wood; Park Central Community; Atlanta Regional Commission; Chattahoochee River and water supply issue; Fulton County Commission; Woodall property zoning issue; Judge Durwood Pye declares ARC unconstitutional.

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Woodall property and zoning issue; creation of Atlanta Regional Commission; conflict with Judge Durwood Pye about constitutionality of ARC; Bob Young, County Attorney; Harry West, Bill Bassett; Friends of the River; National Recreation Area; Jimmy Carter; Kay and Harold Mackenzie; Barbara Blum; Environmental Protection Agency; Shag Cates, chairman of the Fulton County Commission; Georgia Conservancy; Judd Houk; Sweat and...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Sweat's move to Central Atlanta Progress; Central Area Study; Alvin Ferst's role in getting Sweat to CAP; Augustus "Billy" H. Sterne, Chairman of Trust Company Bank; John Portman; Harold Brockey; CAP's agenda: housing and transportation; David Crane, architect; idea of making Techwood-Clark Howell Homes luxury housing; Atlanta Regional Commission; canvassing the residents of Techwood-Clark Howell; Arthur Baxter; First...

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Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Bedford-Pine; Model Cities; Tom Cousins; John Portman; World Congress Center; Frank Carter; Joel Cowan; Phipps Land Company; Larry Gellerstedt; Harold Brockey.

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn and Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Involvement of Sweat and Central Atlanta Progress in organizing new Underground Atlanta; Joe Martin; Arthur Brookings; Underground as a public-private partnership; Colony Square; Steve Fuller; Jack Patterson; Central Atlanta Project; Michael Lomax; Dante Stephensen; Marvin Arrington; Andrew Young; Maynard Jackson; Dan Healy; Bill Calloway; Jesse Hill; Bob Strickland; Underground Improvement Festival Museum; Cecil Connally;...

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Interviewed by Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Sweat's use of committee structures; Saul Alinsky citizen participation; cluster committee system in the Atlanta Project; War on Poverty; Jack Akers; Jimmy Carter; relationships between Atlanta communities; publicity of urban social problems after World War II; Georgia Planning Association; Sam Nunn; George Berry; Urban Life; Atlanta Regional Commission; Ivan Allen.

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn and Shep Barbash. Among topics discussed: Discussions of golden moments for Atlanta; 1996 Olympics; philosophical discussion of Atlanta's future; Alicia Phillip; Sweat states his expectations for the Olympics in reference to introducing thousands of people to civic action; discussion of leadership and government; Atlanta's relationship to the suburbs and to the Federal government; dynamics of government under Mayor Allen. Glory days of Atlanta City government;...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Shep Barbash and Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Downtown Atlanta church community; downtown loft housing; Mike Trotter; Central Atlanta Progress; Homeless Task Force; Connie Curry; Joannah Adams of Central Presbyterian Church; Bill Boling; Andrew Young; St. Luke's; Ethel Mae Matthews; Ed Loring; First Baptist Church; Tom Cousins; Anita and Jim Beaty; homeless problem; Sam Williams. Chattahoochee River Corridor Plan; Georgia Law Number 5; Atlanta Regional Commission;...

Abstract Dan Sweat, Jr. had a successful career in public service and city development in Atlanta, including positions with DeKalb County, Economic Opportunity Atlanta, the City of Atlanta, Atlanta Regional Commission, Central Atlanta Progress, Metropolitan Foundation of Atlanta, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Atlanta Project. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes and agendas, notes, financial records, and such printed materials as clippings and reports, 1964-1986. The papers...

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Office files including correspondence, printed material including reports and clippings, videotapes, born digital records, and artifacts comprise the files of The Atlanta Project, 1991-2000, undated. Materials were created both when Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies administered the program (from 1999) and previously.