Trezzvant Anderson
1906-1963
Atlanta University Center Robert W Woodruff Library Archives Research Center
Trezzvant W. Anderson Papers, Box 19, Folder 2
Trezzvant Anderson, reporter and Charles “Teenie” Harris, photojournalist were colleagues at the Pittsburgh Courier. Their news articles and photographs documented the civil rights movement fight against the injustices of segregation and discrimination that African Americans experienced during the Jim Crow era in the United States. Anderson was a roving reporter who traveled throughout the southern states while Harris focused primarily on the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This exhibit highlights a few items from the Trezzvant Anderson Papers that are housed in the AUC Woodruff Library Archives Research Center.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Trezzvant William Anderson (b. 1906 d. 1963) was an author and journalist best known for reporting on the injustices and inequalities of the Jim Crow South at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The Trezzvant Anderson Papers mainly consists of typescripts of his articles as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Courier. The articles were written under the bylines “Courier Press Service”, “Courier Roving Report”, “Dateline: Georgia”, and “Report from Dixie”. The collection includes notebooks and printed materials that Anderson used in writing and researching articles. The collection also contains correspondence between Anderson and his managers at the Pittsburgh Courier. The letters from William G. (Bill) Nunn, Executive Editor, and P.L. Prattis, Managing Editor, pertains to the story assignments and comments on his articles. In addition, there are a small amount of financial records, legal documents, photographs, his military service and artifacts. The collection, which documents his life from 1932 – 1963, is 14 linear feet or 27 boxes.
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