Sweat, Dan E., 1933-1997

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;...