Mamie Booth Kimball Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS488
The collection depicts documents from Mamie Kimball's personal and professional life as an attorney in the 1950s in Atlanta. Personal effects include correspondence, photographs of friends and family, yearbooks, and collected obituaries for friends and family.
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Papers, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting her life as a trial lawyer and living in Atlanta. Accrual took place on 4/22/2024 when deed of gift was signed.
The collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, publications, and personal correspondence.
Mamie Booth Kimball was born in 1904 to Mr. J. T. Booth and [mother's name]. Her siblings include four brothers, Marvin, Zamer, Roy, and Fred, and her sister Mrs. Robert Stewart (first name unknown). She received her Associate of Business degree from North Georgia College, Dahlonega in August 1933, and came to Altanta to work at Sears. While working there, she began taking night classes at Georgia State University to get a Bachelor of Science in Commerce.
She passed the bar and was sworn in July 1947, and became the first woman in Georgia to try a murder case. Winning the case launched her into the spotlight and she began to try more and more murder and adoption cases, a rarity at the time. She was president of the Sigma Delta Gamma legal sorority and a member of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers.
She left law to join internal revenue in the 1950s. She passed away in 1994.
Arranged in 5 series: 1. Publications, 1940 - Feb 1962 and Undated. 2. Personal materials and other publications, 1918-1963 and Undated. 3. Correspondence, 29 Dec 1925 - 21 Nov 1963 and Undated. 4. Newspapers, 1941 - 10 Sept 1991 and Undated. 5. Photographs, Jan 1958 - 15 Sept 1965 and Undated.
Arrangment scheme for the collection was imposed during processing due to lack of original order.
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