Juanelle Barbee Edwards papers

Collection

Identifier: W006

Staff Only
Not requestable

Scope and Content of the Papers

The Juanelle Barbee Edwards Photograph Collection consists of fifteen photographs (3 black and white; 12 color; 3 1/2" x 5"; 5" x 7"; and 8" x 10") of activities in which Edwards was involved and/or attended, circa 1977-circa 1980. Images document her work with the Democratic Party and her work for the passage of the ERA in Georgia. One group of images was photographed at a tribute dinner given in honor of longtime women's rights activist and Georgian, Mamie K. Taylor, in about 1977. Taylor was the chair of the first Commission on the Status of Women established in 1963 and had campaigned for the ERA since the 1920s.

Dates

Creation: circa 1977-circa 1980

Creator

Edwards, Juanelle Barbee (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research use.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Georgia State University is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research, subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Georgia State University may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Biography of Juanelle Barbee Edwards

Juanelle Barbee Edwards, speaker and writer for the Democratic Party, was born in Eastman (Dodge County), Georgia in 1923 and attended Middle Georgia College (Cochran, GA). She married John Wiley Edwards in 1948.

A resident of Marietta, Georgia, Edwards has long been active in her community and in Democratic party politics. She served as treasurer and then president of the Georgia Federation of Democratic Women. At the 1977 fall meeting of the GFDW she sponsored a unanimously adopted resolution for ratification of the ERA. In 1980 she received their President's Award for outstanding contributions to Democratic Women of Georgia. Edwards traveled as a spokesperson and was a speech writer for Jimmy Carter during his 1980 presidential re-election campaign, was a delegate to the 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 Democratic National Conventions, and was a candidate from Georgia's 7th District in 1983 to fill Larry McDonald's unexpired term for the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1990, she was named one of Cobb County, Georgia's "Pioneer Women," by the Women's Political Caucus of Georgia. In 1995, Edwards was president emeritus of Cobb County Democratic Women, and a member of the Governor's Club of the Democratic Party of Georgia, as well as a board member of several educational and charitable organizations.