Latimer, Pete
Biography:
Atlanta attorney who served as the president of the Atlanta Board of Education, then as its legal counsel in the 1960s; he spoke at Sibley Commission public meeting about school desegregation held in Atlanta in 1960, and represented parties interested in maintaining segregation throughout the Atlanta public school, and resisting the implementation of the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Born June 30, 1914; died October 1971.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated (Atlanta History Center)
- General Assembly Committee on Schools, Sibley Commission (Black-and-white photographs)
- General Assembly Committee on Schools, Sibley Commission (Black-and-white photographs)
- General Assembly Committee on Schools, Sibley Commission (Black-and-white photographs)
- General Assembly Committee on Schools, Sibley Commission (Black-and-white photographs)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- LATIMER COMMENTS ON DESEGREGATION TENSION (1958) (news)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a panel of African American leaders including Georgia state senator Leroy Johnson, Reverend J. D. Grier and attorneys Horace T. Ward and William H. Alexander explaining recent demands to the Board of Education, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 September 25 (news)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a panel of African American leaders including Georgia state senator Leroy Johnson, Reverend J. D. Grier and attorneys Horace T. Ward and William H. Alexander explaining recent demands to the Board of Education, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967 September 25 (moving images)