Atlanta Neighborhood Union

Atlanta Neighborhood Union
Formation	1908
Dissolved	1970s
Founder	Lugenia Burns Hope

The Atlanta Neighborhood Union was an African-American, women-led neighborhood organization in Atlanta, Georgia, started in 1908 by Lugenia Burns Hope, and chartered in 1911.^[1] The Union, "a prototype for self-help and social service organizations,"^[2] was one of the most important organizations for Atlanta's social services, and worked in part by networking with the city's progressive whites.^[3] One of the organizations influenced by it was the Women's Political Council, of Montgomery, Alabama. It was dissolved in the 1970s.

^ Friedman, Jean E. (1990). The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900. UNC Press Books. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-8078-4281-2.
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^ Godshalk, David Fort (2005). Veiled visions: the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the reshaping of American race relations. UNC Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8078-5626-0.

[1] Friedman, Jean E. (1990). The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900. UNC Press Books. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-8078-4281-2.

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[3] Godshalk, David Fort (2005). Veiled visions: the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the reshaping of American race relations. UNC Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8078-5626-0.

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