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He tells stories of some of his entrepreneurial successes and frustrations, particularly in real estate, as Atlanta was changing demographically, socially and politically.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe married his wife Anta and they had four children.  He speaks about all of them and their lives in the interview.  He struggles a bit in discussing his youngest, Chip, who married, moved to New Zealand, and died at a young age.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMendel’s love of Atlanta and understanding of many of the social, racial, political and economic issues facing the city during his life underscores the conversation.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28383"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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He tells stories of some of his entrepreneurial successes and frustrations, particularly in real estate, as Atlanta was changing demographically, socially and politically.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe married his wife Anta and they had four children.  He speaks about all of them and their lives in the interview.  He struggles a bit in discussing his youngest, Chip, who married, moved to New Zealand, and died at a young age.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMendel’s love of Atlanta and understanding of many of the social, racial, political and economic issues facing the city during his life underscores the conversation.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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Today is April 28, 2003. This is for the Jewish Oral History\nProject of Atlanta which is co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the\nJewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, and the National Council of Jewish Women.\nFirst, thank you kindly. Our paths crossed somewhere 50 years ago and it's nice\nto become reacquainted. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You know the purpose of this and we can get started right away. Let's start with your date of birth.\n\nROMM: January 11, 1929 . . . four days before Martin Luther King, Jr.'s . . .\nborn five blocks from each other.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You were born five blocks from there?\n\nROMM: I was born in Georgia Baptist Hospital.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's the reason. Georgia Baptist Hospital doesn't exist anymore,\ndoes it?\n\nROMM: No, it's Atlanta Medical Center now.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Not owned by the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Baptist community, I assume?\n\nROMM: I would think they have given it up. There's a doctor's building there now\nthat used to be the maternity ward on that spot. I was told that I was born in\nthe driveway in an ambulance between the hospital and the maternity ward. They\ndidn't know if they were going to let me in the hospital because you had to be\nborn in the hospital to be in the place with the other infants and the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"doctor\nkind of forced them to let me be in the hospital.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's interesting . . . what would have happened if they wouldn't\nhave let you in [the hospital]?\n\nROMM: Probably take me home.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Where were your parents living at that time?\n\nROMM: At 934 St. Charles Avenue.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Describe it.\n\nROMM: A block off of Ponce de Leon [Avenue]. St. Charles runs east across\nHighland Avenue from St. Charles Place up to Briarcliff [Road].\n\nWEINTRAUB: Orient us for anyone who doesn't know Atlanta. Place it in relation\nto Downtown Atlanta.\n\nROMM: Probably three-and-a-half or four miles east of Downtown. For ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people who\nhaven't been to the Fox Theater, Ponce de Leon runs all the way out through\nAtlanta into DeKalb County.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That gives us an idea of where you were, about three-and-a-half miles\nfrom where people were working at that time. What was your father doing at that time?\n\nROMM: My dad was in the insurance business. In 1911, he went to work for the\nUnited States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, known as 'USF\u0026G.' He was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"16. He had\nother jobs at the same time and he was going to night school. By the time he was\n21, he was the chief underwriter for southeast for USF\u0026G in their bond\ndepartment. When I was born, he was in the general insurance business as an agent.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year was he born?\n\nROMM: Eighteen ninety-five.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: A long time ago.\n\nROMM: It was . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: How about your mother?\n\nROMM: My mother was born in 1899 in Birmingham, Alabama. In fact, they used to\nclaim that her grandparents were the first white people that lived in\nBirmingham, Alabama.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How far back does the family go in Birmingham?\n\nROMM: I would imagine the 1870's.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Interesting. Atlanta wasn't such a booming ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"city either in 1911, I\ntake it.\n\nROMM: It wasn't. Atlanta was amazing. Atlanta had 25,000 people in it right\nafter the War Between the States [American Civil War]. It was remarkable that it\ncame back that fast. It must have been 50,000. I haven't looked at the thing,\nbut it couldn't have been a lot of people by 1895.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Small town. Still a small town, Atlanta?\n\nROMM: Is Atlanta a small town? Far from it. 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These\npeople from out of town said, \"How do you know so many people?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Number\none, when I was growing up, Atlanta didn't have but about 200,000 people in the\nThirties.\" I got into a big fight with a fellow by the name of Pizitz, from\nBirmingham [Alabama]. Pizitz was a big department store, similar to Rich's. My\nmother's uncle used to bring him to the baseball games to see Atlanta play\nBirmingham. We got into a fight about which was bigger, Birmingham or Atlanta.\nThis was in the middle to late Thirties. 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But for\nmy grandchildren and their children in the future, I think Atlanta being big and\nthe opportunities that they all have for work, [outweighs] whatever discomfort I\nmight have.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Let's look at where you were. How long did you live on St. Charles?\n\nROMM: Until I went off to [University of] Georgia [Athens--Georgia] in 1946.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You were there a long time. Through your whole childhood?\n\nROMM: Yes. When I went off to Georgia, I came back and my folks had bought a\ncondo on Briarwood Drive, right off of Briarcliff. An interesting aside as to\nhow that came about. Floyd Brandes . . . I guess this is very important to have\na lot of names ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in here.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's right.\n\nROMM: Floyd Brandes bought one of the first condominiums that Mr. [Morris]\nSolloway had built. They were called Solloway Corps Suites when he built them.\nMr. Frank Garson of Lovable [Company] had lent him some money and Mr. Brandes\nwent broke. Mr. Garson called up my dad and said, \"You will buy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this unit.\"\nThat's why they moved to Briarwood Drive.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That would have been in 1946 or 1947?\n\nROMM: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What's at the Solloway Apartments now?\n\nROMM: They're condos. Briar Hills Condominiums, I guess is the name of it.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It's still there?\n\nROMM: Yes. It was the first co-op in Atlanta. When 30 years went by, in the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1970's my dad was president of the co-op. They changed it from a co-op to a\ncondo, because you could not sell your apartment. You could only sell your\nstock. It was very hard. People couldn't finance it. It became a condo so they\ncould borrow money against their individual unit.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Interesting. So all these condos that are in Atlanta now owe it to\nyour dad?\n\nROMM: I think we had some more condominiums. There are a lot of things that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this\ntown owes to my dad.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll get to that in a little bit. Tell me what it was like growing\nup on St. Charles Avenue.\n\nROMM: We never locked a door. We left the windows open. We knew everybody on the\nstreet. Everybody knew me. We used to walk to grammar school, Highland Avenue\nSchool, which was about six or seven blocks from my house, but we had to cross\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ponce De Leon [Avenue]. Ponce De Leon was a major street with very little\ntraffic back in the Thirties growing up. We had to worry about the streetcar. It\nonly ran every so often. Somebody from my house would take me to Ponce De Leon,\ncross me over, and I could walk the rest of the way to school. In the afternoon,\nsomebody would meet me. 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We were on the outskirts of downtown.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Suburbs?\n\nROMM: No, not quite suburbs.\n\nWEINTRAUB: In the city of Atlanta, right?\n\nROMM: Right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Was St. Charles an all-Jewish street?\n\nROMM: No, but there were some very interesting Jewish affairs there. There was a\ngroup of apartments . . . 1050 St. Charles, I believe was the number . . . that\ndoesn't sound right, though. The Wildauer Apartments . . . I don't know how many\nunits, maybe 30 or 40, were 99 percent Jewish. Dr. [Benjamin] Wildauer was a\ndentist here in Atlanta. His ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"practice was bought by Dr. Irving Goldstein.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are the Wildauer Apartments still there?\n\nROMM: They're condos now. They back up to Druid Hills Presbyterian Church. Have\nyou ever heard of Cox Drug Store?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: It's Cox Drug Store on the corner of St. Charles and Howe. On the opposite\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"side of the street, maybe 400 to 500 feet, are these apartments. They have two\nred columns and a courtyard.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I know where it is now, but I never heard the name I don't think. Our\nfriends lived there.\n\nROMM: The Hollands lived there . . . the Mike Greenblatts lived there . . . the\nPrintzes lived there . . . all of the people that we knew.\n\nWEINTRAUB: They didn’t have block parties, though.\n\nROMM: Didn’t know what that was.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: That’s interesting. How about brothers and sisters?\n\nROMM: I only had one brother. He died when he was seven. I was five.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Sisters?\n\nROMM: No. I'm an only child.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Did you feel neglected as an only child?\n\nROMM: My wife is an only child. We decided we would have at least a half a dozen children.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How many did you have?\n\nROMM: Four.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You're missing two.\n\nROMM: We figured four was enough.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: What years were they born? And give me their names.\n\nROMM: Our oldest is Lisa. We were married in 1954. She was born in 1955. Tracy,\nher brother, we wanted originally to name him Mendel Romm the Third, but we\ndecided not to. So we made Tracy for the three. He's Tracy Mendel Romm. 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We call that 'Chipmas Day' for Chip.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What is his first name?\n\nROMM: Charles, but we called him 'Chip.'\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just to get the record straight, it's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"'Charles' not 'Chip.'\n\nROMM: 'Chip.' He went by 'Chip'.\n\nWEINTRAUB: But if anybody wanted to look him up, they wouldn't find 'Chip' in\nthe phone book.\n\nROMM: He passed away. You won't find him anywhere.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are all of your [other] children still around?\n\nROMM: Our oldest daughter, Lisa, lives with us. She teaches at Sutton Middle\nSchool. 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She has changed publishers and is now with one of the big ones,\n[unintelligible: the name of the publisher]. They're usually on alternative\nmedicine. She graduated from high school when she was 14 and now, at the age of\n36, decided to go to medical school. She's probably going to go to Emory\n[University--Atlanta, Georgia].\n\nWEINTRAUB: But they don't have an herbalist school at Emory.\n\nROMM: She's changed. At one time she was going to go to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"acupuncture school.\nShe's a midwife. She's delivered a tremendous number of babies and she's well\nknown in that field. Their children . . . it's very interesting . . . have never\nhad any kind of inoculation. We said, \"You can't go to school.\" They said, \"Yes,\nyou can. You sign an affidavit that you don't believe in it, because one out of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one hundred million children could have side effects.\" They said they didn't\nhave to worry about the school because their children are home schooled. Their\noldest, who is 17, is at Kennesaw [State University--Kennesaw, Georgia]. I don't\nreally think he's made under a 99 on an exam from being home taught. That's\npretty good.\n\nWEINTRAUB: And how about Amy?\n\nROMM: Amy has three children. 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She just finished serving\nas Co-President of Brandeis [University National Women's Committee].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: And Chip?\n\nROMM: Chip passed away. He was living in New Zealand. He married a young lady\nfrom New Zealand. After he died, she wanted to go home because her family was\nthere. It's very hard to keep up. They came back to visit once. It's real hard .\n. . eight years hard.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Did they have any children?\n\nROMM: They had three. They're all in New Zealand.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you get there?\n\nROMM: We haven't. We are going to go. I don't want to go, but my wife wants to.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I can understand that.\n\nROMM: My background from before is what is interesting. I'm trying to find out\nabout the Romm family. 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I'm named after my\nfather.\" It was kind of strange to him for me to be a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"junior. I had always\nthought that my grandfather died when my dad was four years old.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Here in the United States?\n\nROMM: In Atlanta. It's very hard to really know where he's from, who they were\nand everything else. 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He knew that there\nwas a Romm here who died at the age of 37 in 1899, and was part of this family.\nHe knew they had a son named Mendel, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that's why he was trying to find out.\nMr. Friend, who worked at the AA [Ahavath Achim] synagogue, was a very learned\nman. He had gone from Russia to Shanghai and then came to the [United] States,\nand was translating Russian scientific things for Georgia Tech and the United\nStates government. 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Just like the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rothschilds had done . . . with money, I wish. I knew that my dad had cousins in\nPhiladelphia in the paper business and cousins in New York in the paper\nbusiness. But the ones who were left were professors in Brussels. They had been\nin the paper business in Warsaw [Poland]. But this man tells me I'm all wrong.\nThat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we were from a little town near [unintelligible] . . . and Keidan\n[Lithuania]. K-E-I-D-A-N, I believe it is. I've got it written down. We were\nricher and more important people than the other Romms. He doesn't know if\nthere's any connection. Obviously there was.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Must have been.\n\nROMM: Back at the same period of time and everything. Our people were in the\npaper business also. 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They were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Greenblatts that had about ten or eleven children. I don't know exactly. It was\nvery interesting. The women all remained very devout Jewish women. One was a 'Bach.'\n\nWEINTRAUB: B-A-C-H?\n\nROMM: Bach. A whole Bach family here. There were Abelsons. 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In fact, one of my daddy's uncles became a\nBaptist elder ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Knoxville [Tennessee]. When the Greenblatts first came to the\n[United States], they stopped in Knoxville. The reason it's connected is that my\ngrandfather Romm married my grandmother in Knoxville. They had one child there,\nmy daddy's older sister, born in 1891. My uncle, Sol Romm, was born in 1893 in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Birmingham. He came to Atlanta because his in-laws were here. He had a fruit\nstore on Walton Street in 1895. He died in 1899. The men, Sam Greenblatt and\nMike Greenblatt were in the Spanish-American War. 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I tried to get inspired by ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him, but I must not have gone for it.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's talk about your mother for a moment.\n\nROMM: Her family were Weinsteins. W-E-I-N-S-T-E-I-N. Her mother was just a young\nchild when they moved to Birmingham [Alabama]. I'll have to go back and look at\nthe dates and everything. 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People would come to Birmingham and would go to Mrs.\nGoldman's for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tea. Her sister and brother-in-law and their children moved in\nwith her, in this big house. My mother grew up in Birmingham and she went to\nBirmingham Southern College [Birmingham, Alabama], I guess it was. By the time\nshe was about 19, she was the head bookkeeper for Pizitz Department Store. The\nold lady ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pizitz [Minnie Smolian] and my grandmother were best friends. My\ngrandmother's brother had the jewelry and handbag departments at Pizitz. My\nwife's family, her uncles, both worked for Pizitz. They were from Birmingham. My\ngrandmother was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remarkable person. Because of her, they had a Jewish\ncongregation in Birmingham. They had a meeting with about 12 or 13 families.\nThey voted seven to six, or six to five, that it was to be Reformed. She was a\ncharter member of Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham. Meantime, she helped them form\nthe first Orthodox synagogue there. She's a member of both of them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was head\nof the Chevra kadisha. Is that right word?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Chevra Kadisha burial society.\n\nROMM: She accomplished really interesting things. My mother's oldest sister\nmarried a very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well-to-do fellow from New York City with a Reformed background.\nStanley had been an American for generations. He was gassed during the First\nWorld War. His parents, being very well-to-do, signed all the papers to get him\nout of the VA [Veterans' Administration] Hospital. He lost all of his rights. By\nthe time the [Great] Depression came he really needed some help. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In fact, it was\nreally interesting. My cousin, their son, stayed with us a couple of times\nduring the Depression . . . great guy. He became the Dean of the School of\nArchitecture at Kansas [University of Kansas--Lawrence, Kansas]. He's retired\nnow and [living] in Chapel Hill [North Carolina]. He had all kinds of degrees\nfrom the University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill, North Carolina], North\nCarolina State [University--Raleigh, North Carolina], ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Georgia [Institute of]\nTech[nology--Atlanta, Georgia]. He was close to being a bigger brother when I\nwas a kid. The other sister married a man by the name of Reed: R-E-E-D. They\nwere from Massachusetts. Their claim to fame, other than having lived in this\ncountry ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a few generations, was that their first cousin was a fellow by the\nname of 'Victor Brenner.' He was the sculptor of the Lincoln head penny. He went\nto jail, because he put his initials, V-B, on the things which was against the\nlaw, I think. [They] must have slapped his hand in addition to that. My cousin's\nname is Victor Brenner.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: B-R-E-N-N-E-R?\n\nROMM: Yes. His older brother was very interesting with an Atlanta connection.\nSolon Chadwick Reed married Sam Rothberg. Have you ever heard of Sam Rothberg\nhere in Atlanta?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: Married his niece.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Sam Rothberg's brother had been the assistant attorney general of the\nstate of New Jersey or something like that. Solon had political aspirations. He\nand his wife ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"joined a church before he ran for Congress. I don't know if he ever\nran or not. Their children were raised as Christians. They were shocked when\nthey, already out of their teens, found out about all of their Jewish relatives\nin the South.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I know one thing right now, Mendel. I'm glad I don't have to diagram\nall of this.\n\nROMM: There are so many ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great stories that go with this oral history. My daddy\nand his cousin, Ben Bach, bought a motorcycle. They used to ride up and down\nPiedmont [Avenue], because it was a dirt road.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Give me an approximate year.\n\nROMM: It had to be in the late 1910's, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"early 1920's. They blew a tire. They\ndidn't have any money to replace it. They swapped the motorcycle for a horse.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's an interesting change.\n\nROMM: The horse was blind and they didn't know it. To me, these are great\nstories about them. They used to camp out at Stone Mountain. It used to take\nthem all day ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to get to Stone Mountain from Downtown. They used to go camping out\nat a lake out near Oglethorpe [University--Atlanta, Georgia].\n\nWEINTRAUB: Silver Lake?\n\nROMM: Silver Lake. The streetcar stopped at the Fox Theatre. This is before our\ntime. We used to be able to get on at Oglethorpe. 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I lived less than a mile [from there] on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"St. Charles . . .\n[which] practically dead ended into the baseball field. When my daddy was a kid,\nthat was just wilderness and country.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I don't know if you noticed in the newspaper in the past week. There\nwas an article about the tree in the park. Evidently there is still a tree\nstanding in the old Cracker ballpark [Ponce de Leon Ballpark] there.\n\nROMM: That's where Home Depot is.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: I don't remember the tree. I used to sit on the railroad tracks up there.\nI'd watch the ball games sometimes when I couldn't afford to go, so I'm real\nfamiliar with it. There used to be a level from the baseball field that went up\non a little hill. There could have been a tree right there, if I remember.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's what they talked about. It was on a hill. 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Later on she became manager of the Mayfair\nClub during World War II, because the manager had gone off to the service. My\nAunt Lena was very protective of her family. My dad had an offer by a law firm.\nHe was a clerk at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same time working for the insurance company. He was also a\nmail clerk for the Central Georgia Railroad. He also had a newspaper route\nbefore going to school. These people wanted to send him to Harvard Law School\n[Cambridge, Massachusetts]. My Aunt Lena said, \"There's no way. We need your\nincome to support the family.\" They had four half-sisters and brothers by that\ntime. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In fact, most people never had a better friend\nthan my mother. In the letter Lena Romm wrote, \"Tootsie, you're so cute. You've\ngot so much on the ball. You can find somebody else. But we need Mendel to\nsupport the family.\"\n\nWEINTRAUB: They got married anyway. We're now on tape two. This is still Marvin\nWeintraub talking to Mendel Romm Junior. Mendel, we were talking about the\nmarriage of your parents and the interaction with Aunt Lena. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let's go to your\nfather again. At age 16 you said he was working. . .\n\nROMM: . . . four jobs. He was the mail clerk for the Central Georgia Railroad.\nThat work consisted of picking up the mail in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"morning and putting it on the\nNancy Hanks to Savannah and going back in the afternoon and getting the mail\nfrom Savannah to take to the office. He also had a newspaper route. There are\ngreat stories about that, because during the Race Riot of 1906, he was\ndelivering newspapers, and he was a mail clerk for the USF\u0026G, and he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a law\nclerk for one of the most prestigious law firms in Atlanta . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . all at the age of 16 . . .\n\nROMM: . . . and going to school at night.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Which school?\n\nROMM: Boys' High.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Boys' High, at night? I didn't know Boys' High had a night school.\n\nROMM: Whatever they had for the city of Atlanta for night.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I've interviewed others who attended Boys' High, but no one has ever\nmentioned a night school. That's interesting.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: I may have made up the night school portion. He had to go to school\nsomewhere to be able to go to Georgia Tech. It's very interesting. He took a\ncommerce course at Tech, and that commerce division which was at . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are you talking about the University of Georgia?\n\nROMM: . . . Georgia School of Technology.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Georgia School of Technology at the time.\n\nROMM: Right. They had a night school there which gave a business degree. Not too\nlong after my dad graduated as a Tech graduate, it became ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia State\nUniversity. So my dad was an alumnus of both Tech and Georgia State.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The night school at Georgia Tech downtown . . . that met on Lucky\nStreet at that time, as I recall.\n\nROMM: I have no idea.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I think it met at the Baptist Tabernacle, if I'm not mistaken. Your\ndad got a degree from Tech. 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I'm having\nto give it to you second hand. He went through the different degrees and became\na Shriner. Back in the 1920's, no Jews could get into the Yaarab Temple. For a\nperiod of about six or eight years they didn't take any Jews at the Yaarab\nTemple. My daddy's friends were opposing people. They were blackballed. My dad\ndecided ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who the people were who were blackballing these fellows. He got a group\nof people to sit behind the ones they thought were doing the blackballing. Dad\nsaid he went over to Mr. 'So and So' and said, \"We've been trying to get some\nblack friends in here. They keep getting blackballed. I want to tell you\nsomething. We're sitting here tonight. If these guys get blackballed, there will\nnever be another person to join here at Temple. We'll blackball ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody.\" The\nJewish guys got in that night. They never had any more trouble.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How did your father get in, in the first place?\n\nROMM: Different . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . of course . . . a different group . . .\n\nROMM: . . . my dad, yes. Times go by pretty fast. My dad grew up by the Atlanta\nBoys Club. I'm trying to think of who the other Jewish fellow was in it with\nhim. All the rest of the people were Christians. 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Back in the Thirties we belonged to three different congregations.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Outside of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"city of Atlanta and a few other places, people don't\nunderstand belonging to more than one congregation. It seems to be an Atlanta\ntrait more than most places.\n\nROMM: I think any place in the South, you had some people who were upper middle\nclass, had some money, and had a Jewish core. Some people looked down on others\nfor whatever reason, but people who believed in family and religion and\neverything else. 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Aunt Lena ended up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moving in with us. She fixed the meals. This\nwas after she kind of retired. And [she made] carrots and raisins every night or\napples and raisins . . . two things my daddy didn't like. They'd have them every night.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I'd say every night's a little too often. 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Every afternoon during the Depression,\ntheir chauffeur would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pick us up at school and either take us to their house or\nmy house to play. When his folks went to the movies, they had to take me. My\nfolks took him. When we got to Boys' High, I felt strange. It wasn't the same\nthing that we had all those years. I didn't think anything of it. I was too\ncaught up in going to high school. 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She said,\n\"What's wrong with that?\" She said, \"They asked him in September when he started\nschool.\" The daddy, who was a country guy from West Georgia, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"asked [my friend],\n\"Did they ask Mendel?\" He said, \"No.\" So his dad said, \"If they don't ask\nMendel, you can't belong.\" The day after his daddy died, he joined this group.\nIt really upset me. If he had asked me, \"Hey, I've got a chance to . . . \" I\nwould [have said], \"Go ahead and do it.\" That's when I joined AZA [Grand Order\nof the Aleph Zadik Aleph].\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was your friend's name?\n\nROMM: Quinton Dobbs.\n\nWEINTRAUB: D-O-B-B-S?\n\nROMM: Yes. 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Everybody made fun of him.\n\nWEINTRAUB: He made money on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pepsi-Cola, too.\n\nROMM: I'm sure they did. But that's how I got interested in learning more about Judaism.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You did that all on your own, essentially?\n\nROMM: Yes.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Through AZA.\n\nROMM: Yes. I went to [University of] Georgia. 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It was the way I thought you're\nsupposed to live.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Talk about Boys' High School while you were there.\n\nROMM: Boys' High School was a great place. I think Mr. H.O. Smith, the\nprincipal, was in his declining years when I went there. Mr. Hal Halsey was the\nhistory teacher. His assistant principal was also the disciplinarian. There were\nsome great guys there. 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My cousin Milton, who came from\nthe same kind of background basically that I did, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had bacon and ham. Mr. Kelly\nsaid, \"You know Jews aren't supposed to eat that.\" That evening Milton got\nknocked out in the first round. When he woke up Mr. Kelly said, \"I told you Jews\nweren't supposed to eat bacon and ham.\" Boys' High was very disproportionate\nJewish-wise from our status in the community. I doubt if, in Atlanta, one\npercent ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the people were Jewish. Yet at Boys' High School, there were more\nthan ten percent Jewish. The big rival was Tech High School which shared the\nmain building with us. The Tech High kids used to say, [Mendel sings] \"Join the\nJewish Navy, eats your grits and gravy, fight, fight, fight for Palestine.\" That\nwas their theme song. 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The only reason they allowed Jews was because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there\nwasn't enough of us to be able to afford to have another school. It was a great\nprep school. People at Boys' High School went on to bigger and better things.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are you a member of your alumni association?\n\nROMM: Once in a while.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you contribute $20 a year?\n\nROMM: No, I'm getting ready to join as a life member. I don't know how long. 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In\ntraining for the track team, you had to go out and run a couple miles ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before\nyou'd do your sprint. I'd be worn out. Mr. Doyal used to give us all of these\nlectures about the kind of people we should be. The kind of moral life we should\nlive. Later on, he got involved in some sex scandals after he became a [Fulton]\nCounty Commissioner. I said, \"Golly. 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Anta's dad's first cousin . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Spell her first name.\n\nROMM: A-N-T-A. 'American National Theater Association.' Her name was supposed to\nbe a family name: Enta. E N T A. But when she was in first grade, her \"E's\"\nlooked like \"A's.\" The teacher just called her 'Anta.' So she became 'Anta.'\n\nWEINTRAUB: But officially it's an 'E'? What does the birth certificate read?\n\nROMM: It was 'Enta,' but her social security [number], marriage license,\neverything ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she's ever done . . . it's been 'Anta. ' School degrees and\neverything else.\n\nWEINTRAUB: A little unusual name.\n\nROMM: She's from a little tiny town in North Florida about 30 miles south of\nDothan, Alabama. Her folks were in the retailing business. They moved down there\nin 1929 right after they got married, and became very popular in the town. 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I took Marcia Cove who is now\nMarcia Epstein. You know Dr. Jacob Epstein? His wife. As we were riding up the\nmountain, Anta's in the front seat. I said, \"Why did I swap dates?\" I'm in love\nwith that girl in the front seat.\" I chased her for a couple years. [Romm speaks\nto his wife who is in another room]. You can come in, Anta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: [Talking to Anta] He's telling stories about you.\n\nROMM: That's how we met. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The lady made a match. It worked out.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You got married in what city?\n\nROMM: Dothan, Alabama. The reason we got married in Dothan was Anta's father was\npresident of the temple there. 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They all came\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the wedding. It was a very big wedding.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Where did you find that much space to put them up in Dothan overnight?\n\nROMM: The people from Atlanta just drove over. I had an uncle, my mother's only\nbrother, who was married to a Sokol . . . S-O-K-O-L . . . from Birmingham. He\nwas busy in the lobby of the hotel telling everybody, \"Come on in. My nephew's\nfather-in-law's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buying. It's on him. It was a very big crowd. A fellow by the\nname of Frank Cloud was a caterer here in Atlanta. We were the first big out of\ntown party he catered. He even bought a truck to bring everything down to\nDothan. 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I had that obligation to go into the\ninsurance business, so that's what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was doing. I started getting involved in\nreal estate. I thought I was a genius.\n\nWEINTRAUB: In Atlanta, everyone was a genius at that time selling real estate.\n\nROMM: I wasn't selling. I was developing . . . until I got greedy.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll get to that. 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He told his daddy, \"They don't take Jews.\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: There was another instance with your father and the Shriners not\ntaking Jews in. What was the climate for Jews?\n\nROMM: Wonderful.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You say it was wonderful, even though there are two instances in your\nfamily. . .\n\nROMM: . . . when I think even today . . . as somebody was saying in the\nbackground of the AJC, you've got to know that things seemed to be a lot better\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"than they ever were. I heard a Reverend Sawyer on Israel Today yesterday. It was\nwonderful. He even admits the fact that now is the chance for all these\nantisemites, anti-Israel . . . they can be against the Jews, too. I've always\nthought if you scratch the best people a little bit, you might find ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a little\nantisemitism. One of my daddy's friends was Charlie Isbell. He worked for USF\u0026G.\nHe knew my dad all those years. My dad's nickname is 'Mark.' He told me one time\nhe said, \"Mark, you know things are terrible. These white girls are dating these\nblack guys. There's only going to be one pure race and that's the Jews.\" This\nman loves my daddy. 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We invited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends of ours by the time we got into high school to come to\nthe party and a few of them wore yarmulkes. Dr. [David] Marx had a fit. He said,\n\"Get those infidel things off your head.\" We didn't have a lot of opportunities\nto have friends.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Primarily your associations were with family members,\n\nROMM: That's right. 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There were a lot of people with the\nfirst name of Mendel.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: We're looking at more than one Mendel family that are not related,\nbut there is some intermarriage or relationship between them. That's what's\nconfusing to me . . .\n\nROMM: . . . and to everybody else. It's very hard to explain. My aunt was a Mendel.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You went into AZA. You had a group of Jewish friends. Except for the\n[Quintan] Dobbs you mentioned earlier, no non-Jewish friends?\n\nROMM: I had a lot of non-Jewish friends. I was very involved in the Boy Scouts.\nI was a counselor at Camp Bert Adams [Scout Reservation] for about four years.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was Camp Bert Adams?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: Are you familiar with Smyrna with the Overlook? I think that's the name of\nthat big high-rise office building out there as you cross the railroad tracks\n[at] Paces Ferry [Road] in Smyrna.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: Camp Bert Adams was a tremendous acreage of land that extended all the way\nback to Cumberland shopping center. 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In fact, some of them became very successful people in Atlanta.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stockton's Men Store, Ed Stockton was at scout camp with me. Julian McGraw who\nis a big builder here in town, we were at camp together at Bert Adams. I could\ngo on with many of them. As I got involved with my Jewish activities, I didn't\nhave time.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll stop here. We ran about 35 or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"40 minutes on the tape before we\ngo into the Jewish activities, your background in business and what you did as\nan adult. Thank you for your time this afternoon.\n\nROMM: I enjoyed it. I enjoy talking.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This is Marvin Weintraub again. This is Tape 3. I'm interviewing\nMendel Romm Junior. Today is May 20, 2003. We're in Mendel's home. The tape is\nfor the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta, co-sponsored ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the American Jewish\nCommittee, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta and the National Council of\nJewish Women. Last time you indicated there was no antisemitism. Yet you gave me\na very short segment of antisemitism with a friend of yours and his club. As the\ntape was coming on, you mentioned another one. Would you mind repeating that\nplease Mendel?\n\nROMM: When I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about ten years old, a family moved here from Hawaii. The\nfather was a captain in the army. The son was half-American, half-Hawaiian. He\ngot friendly with the little boys in the neighborhood. One day I went down to\nplay with my friends. He yelled, \"We're not playing with you. You're a Jew.\"\nThey threw rocks at me. I ran home. I can tell you who the people were, but it's\nnot important. My mother was playing cards. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Her family was in Zaban\nFurniture Company. Her uncle was Mandle Zaban of ZEP Manufacturing. Her cousin\nwas Erwin Zaban. Harriet had a little bit of a funny nose. There was a girl by\nthe name of Mogeena MacDougal . . . how I can remember this? It's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unbelievable.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Better than I could remember.\n\nROMM: She told Renee Newman . . . N-E-W-M-A-N . . . a nice Jewish girl who went\nto Sunday school with me, \"We can't have anything to do with Harriett Zaban,\nbecause she's a Jew and she's got different blood than we have.\" This was in\njunior high school. 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My classmates ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that they educated were all Christian. We were only\nthree Jewish kids, out of maybe 30.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What grade again?\n\nROMM: This had to be the seventh or eighth grade. They told this girl in no\nuncertain terms, that those are our friends. \"How dare you even say anything\nabout it.\" There was some antisemitism. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He explained it very well. We went to 'White\nAnglo-Saxon Protestant' public schools. The Catholics were going to schools that\ntheir faith would have. The blacks went to separate schools. There were not\nenough Jews for them to have a separate school system for us. They had to accept\nus into the public schools. I believe that was what it was.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: However, a recent book was written about not being accepted in the\nDecatur School System. Have you read that one? The Decatur Georgia School System\ndid not accept Jews at that point.\n\nROMM: That's amazing. I didn't know that.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It was written by a reporter for the [Atlanta] Journal-Constitution\nabout two years ago, and indicated the way they got around it was their school\nmet Tuesday through ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Saturday.\n\nROMM: They thought Jews couldn't come to school on Saturday.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's one reason there were so few Jews in Decatur at the time. But\nyou're saying what was then the city of Atlanta did not have that type of reputation?\n\nROMM: There weren't that many Jews here. I think the total Jewish population in\nthe Thirties when I was growing up was less than 5,000 people.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How many synagogues do you remember at that time?\n\nROMM: Four.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Name them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: Shearith Israel, AA synagogue, the Temple, and a fourth one which I\nbelieve became Beth Jacob. It was an Orthodox synagogue, located on Boulevard.\nThe reason I know is because it was one my daddy belonged to. His mother lived\non the corner of Boulevard and Angier [Avenue]. She could attend the synagogue.\nIt was just a small group. I believe it became Beth Jacob.\n\nWEINTRAUB: No ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sephardic synagogue at that time?\n\nROMM: Or VeShalom. Hal Cohen, who was the son of the rabbi [Joseph Cohen], was a\nfraternity brother of mine in Athens. He changed his name to 'Alan Cohen.'\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's go back to the school where you had that discussion. What was\nthe name of that school?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: Bass Junior High School. We had a little antisemitism, but not that you\nwould know it. I think I may have told you the last time, there was this fellow\nthat I had become friends with. His mother and my mother had become very good\nfriends. They wanted us in the same class. Miss Corrigan, the principal, was\nCatholic. She saw to it that we were not in the same class all through grammar\nschool . . . junior high school. . . when this took place. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ended up in the\nsame class, because a Jewish lady, Mrs. Goodman, was the secretary of the\nschool. Mother told the story that she saw to it that Quinton [Dobbs] and I were\nin the same class.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Last time you said you graduated from the University of Georgia. You\nwere a TEP and eventually became president of the national fraternity?\n\nROMM: I was treasurer of the fraternity council at Georgia. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then they moved. My mother decided\nshe didn't want to be a landlord. She got too attached to the people that lived\nthere and they sold the duplex.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let me talk about the Jewish community. You're living on St. Charles\nAvenue, and you mentioned four synagogues, five synagogues finally, which were\nnot located anywhere near St. Charles, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"except the one on Boulevard. Where were\nthey located?\n\nROMM: Probably the closest one was Shearith Israel. It was on Highland Avenue\nright there at University. The AA was located on Washington Street or Capital\nAvenue. I don't remember the name of the street. The Temple, in 1931, moved to\nPeachtree Road. They were also on the south side.\n\nWEINTRAUB: From your recollection, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were there two Jewish communities? One on the\nnorth side and one on the south side?\n\nROMM: It had more to do . . . and Mrs. Bertha Hirsch told me yesterday. . . she\nlived on Connelly Street . . . and these other people lived on Capital Avenue.\nThey had already had it made. We lived on the other side of the track. It was\nonly two or three blocks away. There were no tracks or anything else. They did\nfeel that way ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back in those days. Part of her conversation yesterday, was that\nnewcomers who came to town embarrassed the native-born young people. I'm going\nback before my birth. Based on what she told me, I can recognize some of it. The\nfeelings that went on . . . they were embarrassing the way they carried on. They\nhad no respect for other people.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: You've spoken about a lady for a few minutes. Who is she?\n\nROMM: Bertha Hirsch is the widow of Leo Hirsch. She's 96 and she's the star of\n99X. They celebrate all of her birthdays and occasions [on the air]. They call\nher up, because she comes up with interesting things. For example, her\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"granddaughter by marriage has a twin sister who lives in Chicago. They were\nGlazers . . . Jennifer and Michelle Glazer. They called Mrs. Hirsch up to wish\nher a belated ninety-sixth birthday a few weeks ago. A man gets on the phone and\nshe can't understand him. She thinks he's some old Jewish man with an accent.\nShe asks, \"What's your name?\" [He answers], \"Ozzy Osbourne.\" [She asks], \"Who\nare you?\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: She's not current.\n\nROMM: But it's great because [she says], \"Your language . . . your accent.\" \"I'm\nfrom the [United Kingdom],\" he said. \"United Kingdom . . . where's United\nKingdom?\", [she asks]. Finally he says, \"I'm from England.\" She says, \"Welcome\nto the United States of America!\" This is the kind of lady she is.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You've been a member of the Temple. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Your parents, as well as others\n(which is not unusual in Atlanta), were members of more than one religious\naffiliation. You mentioned last time you've been with [Rabbi David] Marx, and\nwhat he did and you've been through.\n\nROMM: [Rabbi] Jack Rothschild.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Jack Rothschild and [Rabbi Alvin] Sugarman. Do you care to compare\nthe changes in that particular community over the years?\n\nROMM: The Reformed community?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: I've done a little history ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the Temple, trying to find out things. I\nwent to the Atlanta History Center. Dr. Marx kept no records. The Temple put it\nin boxes and threw things away. The only records he kept were births, marriages,\nand deaths, which there is a record of still. When Rabbi Rothschild got there,\nhe started keeping better records. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was all. Everything was in English. I\nthink I may have mentioned this the last time. G-d knows, I realize he was\nmaking good Americans out of us. One time he even had services on Sunday, which\nsome of the Reformed people did in Rochester, New York and some other places.\nThe congregation was against it. They used to make fun. I'm trying to tell you\nhow Reformed we were. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"On Yom Kippur we would take a break for lunch. My daddy\nand I would go downtown and meet some of the other men for lunch. My mother\nwould sit in the sanctuary all through the break. It just came to my mind a few\nweeks ago. Dr. Marx did not get up out of his chair on the pulpit. He sat there\nand prayed. 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But Jack ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was not a real\nobservant Jew. He went horseback riding on Saturdays. He played golf on\nSaturdays. In fact, David Marx Junior asked me one time on a golf tee at the\nStandard Club, \"Mendel, how are your folks?\" I said, \"They're at the office\nworking, so that I can be out here playing golf.\" He looked straight at Jack\nRothschild and said, \"I remember when my father used to work on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Saturdays.\" I\nunderstood. I don't know if anybody else understood what he was saying. When\nAlvin [Sugarman] came . . . Alvin was an assistant rabbi . . . he kind of got\npushed into it. If Jack Rothschild had lived another year or two, Alvin would\nnever have been our rabbi. He would have been like all assistant rabbis. They go\non to a congregation somewhere, or they did in those days. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But he grew into it.\nHe was a very fine man. I don't give Alvin credit for it . . . a change in the\nhearts of members in our congregation at the Temple. They started realizing that\nthey needed more of Judaism than what we had had in the past. 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I always say to my partner, \"I\ndon't want my son-in-law to think ill of me.\" There was very little\nintermingling between the Sephardic community ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the general Jewish community.\nTo say the same thing for the ultra-Reformed people at the Temple with any Jew,\nregardless of who they were. We had people in our Sunday school class who became\nChristians . . . married Christians. It was a different ball game.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Not too long ago there was a play called The Last Night at Ballyhoo\nwhich dealt with the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Temple.\n\nROMM: I used to go to Ballyhoo.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Was that depiction honest?\n\nROMM: It was exaggerated, like most things, but it was pretty close. It was the\ndebutante ball sort of thing for the right Jewish girls. As we expanded we\ndidn't have enough girls left in the Reformed part. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had a lot of that.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Do you think Ballyhoo improved relationships between young men and\nwomen and kept them in the faith?\n\nROMM: It's similar to the thing that I told you about my friend joining a\nChristian fraternity. It gave Jewish young people a place to be together, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"even\nthough it gets back to that same thing. There were a lot of young people from\nthe AA synagogue that came to Ballyhoo. It was another social thing for Jewish kids.\n\nWEINTRAUB: It was not exclusively Temple Reformed members?\n\nROMM: Not for Ballyhoo. 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Wait . . . the girls had an SDT ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sorority. I think all\ntheir members were Temple members. I've got to remember the name of the thing\nthat the Jewish boys from The Temple belonged to. I didn't, because after my\nexperience in high school I joined AZA.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You were one of the few Temple members in AZA?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: Yes, in those days.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Because then all the Jewish boys and girls essentially at the Temple\nhad their own little . . .\n\nROMM: . . . well not all, because things changed. In 1944 or 1945 we started\nfinding out what Hitler thought of Jews. A lot of barriers that they had before\nbroke down. We were already ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more . . . 'enlightened' I guess is the right word.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I think it was called the Top Hat Club.\n\nROMM: That was the Ballyhoo sponsors, originally. My cousin was a member. I was\nasked to be a member and I didn't. . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . that was a Temple . . .\n\nROMM: . . . social club for boys.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes, for boys.\n\nROMM: Basically, in most cases, the Standard Club . . . 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The\nStandard Club was called 'Concordia Club' originally, and it had served its\nusefulness after awhile because these people didn't need that for social life.\nBut the golf course part, they played golf out at Avondale.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"People who were members of the Standard Club and remained members became the\npeople that restored the golfing at the Standard Club and were playing golf out\nat Avondale.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What was the relationship among these three all-Jewish clubs?\n\nROMM: There are pictures that I'm going to give to the [Breman] Jewish Museum.\nThey already have some of them, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they don't know who the people are. That's\nwhy I've been trying to find out. Here's some of the breakdown I've got. My dad\nwas the president of the Jewish Progressive Club in the early Twenties when he\nwas just out of his teens or in his early twenties, before he got married. The\nJewish Progressive Club actually [unintelligible: took the place. We didn't have\na Wine McShay?]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a social club that provided health club and athletics\nfor the members. Also, card playing and everything else.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Slot machines?\n\nROMM: In fact, that came later. Lyons Joel is a grandson of Simon Selig [Sr.]\nwho owned Selig Chemical. 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Lyons\nsaid, \"My grandfather never went into the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Progressive Club.\" Then he found out\nfrom his mother that he did. He went over there to play cards. Even way back in\nthe Twenties, there was a co-mingling of the different groups. All of the\nmembers of the Mayfair Club were members of the Progressive Club. As this Mrs.\nHirsch told me last night, she agreed with what I already knew. 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Instead of going to the Progressive\nClub's big dances, like Thanksgiving, and New Years' Eve, they had their own\nparty at their club then, the Biltmore Hotel.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This is the Don't Worry Club now.\n\nROMM: Don't Worry Club plus people that they hooked with up along the way . . .\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"members of the Progressive Club, and probably others. I would think everybody\nbelonged to the Progressive Club back in those days. Anyhow, in the Thirties,\nagain it gets to antisemitism. We had some sporting type places in town.\nMooney's Lake, which was behind what is now Broadview Lindberg Shopping Center\n[Lindbergh City Center]. It had a sign \"No Jews Allowed.\" Mr. Asa Candler built\na ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"zoo and swimming facility on his estate on Briarcliff Road, with \"No Blacks\nand Jews\" allowed. The Venetian Swimming Pool on Scott Boulevard was \"Christians\nOnly.\" Yes, there was antisemitism going back, but we had our own lives. I mean\nwe ignored them. We didn't feel like we needed them. When Mr. Candler did his\nbit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Briarcliff, the fathers of people my age, a little older, a little\nyounger, decided the Progressive Club wasn't an alternative for them. They built\ntheir own club on Spring Street called the 'Mayfair Club.' I have some books\naround here on the history of the Mayfair Club. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had fun.\nGrowing up, some of my friends and I decided we didn't want to call it 'Don't\nWorry Club.' We called ours the 'Good Time Club.' We formed our own little\npre-AZA, pre-Top Hat, anything else. One of the boy's father took us out to the\nChattahoochee [River] to teach us how to shoot guns. It was just a way for a\ngroup of people to get together.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Your affiliation with clubs, sororities and fraternities or whatever\nelse continues to this day?\n\nROMM: No, I don't belong to any clubs. I'm still for life a member of Tau\nEpsilon Phi. There's a great story about why I'm a member of TEP. 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You do what you want ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to.\" Meantime, I really\ngot carried away with the TEP's. The man who really inspired me as a person was\nJudge [Marvin Herman] Shoob. He wasn't a judge then, but he was older. Most of\nthe people that were there were older. There were people who were Reformed,\nConservative, and Orthodox. There were people from the country and there were\npeople from the city. It was a group that I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"fit into. I was 'rah, rah' fraternity.\n\nWEINTRAUB: So much so, that you became president of TEP. National President?\n\nROMM: National Council, right. That's because of people that preceded me:\nIsadore Heiman, Joe Gerson, Mr. Ginsburg . . . they were all presidents of TEP.\nI went along with it.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What do you think of the TEP's today?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: What I read and what I hear from talking to parents, and I met some of\nthem, they seem to be a very nice group of young people. I've outgrown it. My\nfriends, social friends, belonged to all kinds of different college\nfraternities. When we go to Athens, we don't go to any of the fraternity houses,\nbecause no one wants to say, \"Go to my fraternity house.\" So we just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do our\nthing. I don't get there very much. I had a lot to do with it in the past.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Is it any longer a Jewish fraternity?\n\nROMM: No, don't believe so. Even more interesting than that, in 1949 I went to a\nconvention in Chicago representing the TEP's at Georgia. A question came up\nabout integration of the fraternity. 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We can't do it in Athens because half our people\nlive in little towns like Alma, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fitzgerald, Albany [all in Georgia], and all of\nthese little towns down there. They can't be associated with somebody\nintegrating in 1949.\" Of course, I think the first non-Jew that we took in the\nTEP's was black. Not in Georgia, up east. 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He went to the Christian\ncommunity ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the black community, but he went so much further. Dr. Marx didn't\nwant to step on anybody's toes in trying to bring this into the general\ncommunity. Jack went not only with the Christian ministers, but he went out and\nreally got involved in integration.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: You mentioned being in the military. My assumption is ROTC [Reserve\nOfficers' Training Corps]?\n\nROMM: I was ROTC at Georgia. Something about my high school years being AZA, I\nwas regional [unintelligible] of AZA. I was very involved. I was asked to be the\nchairman of a Youth for Democracy Rally here in Atlanta. The guest of honor ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was\ngoing to a guy by the name of Frank Sinatra, who at the time was working for the\nADL, traveling around the country. When I told my dad he said, \"It's a great\nthing, but you can't do it.\" \"Why not?\" I asked him. \"If this is open to\neverybody including blacks, you can't be the chairman of something that's going\nto be open.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He had to make a living. He had to live.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Interesting. That would have been 1946 or 1947?\n\nROMM: [In] 1945 or 1946. I was 16 or 17 years old.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Let's go back to ROTC. We have a few minutes left on this tape. You\nwere in ROTC at Georgia?\n\nROMM: I had three choices in ROTC at Georgia. I could be an infantryman, Air\nForce, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6510.0,6540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or Army. My cousin, Milton Romm, had been in combat for less than 24\nhours when he got shot, machine gunned in the stomach. He was an infantry\nofficer. Back in World War II, the Air Force was part of the Army. People that\nthe Air Force didn't want, they sent to the infantry. I made that decision. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\ndidn't want to be an infantry officer. My friends who took Air ROTC all got desk\njobs. They had a good life. I found out being an Army officer wasn't all that I\nthought it was. It wasn't riding around in tanks.\n\nWEINTRAUB: So you went into the Army?\n\nROMM: Right. Went on active duty.\n\nWEINTRAUB: How many years?\n\nROMM: A little over two years. I was called up the week after I graduated from\nGeorgia. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's when the Korean War broke out.\n\nWEINTRAUB: In 1950.\n\nROMM: [In] 1950. I didn't even know how to put my pins on, my bar, or my armored\ntank. I didn't even know what direction they went. What I have called a basic\nmilitary training. I think the summer ROTC we went to was the closest thing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\nboot camp that you could have. I was very fortunate. A couple of things\nhappened. I had joined the Masons when I turned 21. In Masonry, you don't ask\npeople to join, they have to do it, make their thing. My daddy had been a 32nd\nDegree Scottish Rite Mason. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He belonged and had friends in it just like all of\nthe other things he did. I knew, since I became 21, I wanted to come home and\ngot through [unintelligible]. I rode the bus in from Athens to go to classes and\nwhen I got out of school I went into the service. My dad says, \"Good opportunity\nfor you. They're going to have a fast ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"class in Scottish Rite. That means they're\ngoing to compress months of study into four, five days. You ought to go ahead\nand do it before you go overseas.\" I put in for a leave. Everyone was entitled\nto leave before they went overseas. I was at Fort Benning [Georgia], which is\nonly 100 miles away, if it's that far. My Colonel said, \"You can't have leave,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and you live in Atlanta. I'll let you have a couple weekends off, but you . . .\n\" everybody else got to take leave . . . \"you got to stay here.\" I'm a little\nSecond Lieutenant that knows nothing. My Lieutenant Colonel had been a graduate\nclass of West Point in 1933. He wanted to be another [General George] Patton,\nbut he was a Lieutenant Colonel in 1941. In 1950 he was still a Lieutenant\nColonel. Something happened. I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with him when he took his dirty boots and\nstuck it on a general's leather couch and shook his pipe, and all his spittle\nwent towards the general. I could understand what happened to him. But the point\nI wanted to bring out is I get a call from the battalion office. I go up there\nand I saw the Colonel pacing inside. He said, \"Who do you know at division\nheadquarters?\" I said, \"I don't know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anybody.\" Then he said, \"They demanded you\nhave at least a week. If you want two weeks, you can have two weeks.\" I said,\n\"No. All I want is four or five days to go home to go through the Scottish\nRite.\" With that, the Colonel came out of his office shaking that pipe and said,\n\"No good Masons. Why would you want to have anything to do with them?\" He's\nshaking his pipe, and I'm scared to death. I get home and my dad said, \"You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come\non, no problem.\" So I go home and I'm in the class with Joe Hodge. He's a priest.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll have to pick this up. I thought we had enough time. We'll pick\nup where we were a moment ago. This again is Marvin Weintraub and today is still\nMay 20, 2003. I'm still interviewing Mendel Romm Junior. You were talking about\nGeneral Hodge and, and the Masons.\n\nROMM: General Hodge was the Commanding General of the Third Army. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At Fort\nMcPherson [Atlanta, Georgia], he and his top people were all going through\nScottish Rite together. I went to meet them and have my picture taken. I'm the\nonly person in uniform out of these hundreds of people, standing next to the\nGeneral. He said, \"I understand you had a little trouble getting here.\" I said,\n\"There really wasn't. My Colonel wasn't too excited about it.\" He says, \"I'll\nhave somebody give you my number. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you can't get me on that number, you know\nwho I am and where I am. No matter where you are in the world, if anybody gives\nyou any trouble about Masonry, you call me.\" I thought, \"That's pretty good.\"\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's not bad, having generals in your ball park, so to speak. Did\nyou spend time in Korea or not?\n\nROMM: No. When I got called up, I went to, at the time it was Camp Rucker. Now\nit's Fort Rucker in Alabama. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had all of these people from Fort McPherson. None of them are\npeople that I had met earlier. Of course, I met them later. I saw to it that we\nhad a really comfortable place for them to relax. I started playing bridge with\nthese people and got friendly. One day when I'd been there maybe a month or so,\nI ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"get my orders to go to Korea as an infantry officer. I said, \"I guess I'm\ngoing to go to Korea as an infantry officer.\" There was another lieutenant there\nthat had gone to [University of] Georgia with me. He still remains a good friend\nof mine. We both got put on orders. We were the only two single officers at the\ntime. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They get all the way up to Washington through all the commands and they\nsaid, \"If you want them to go as infantry officers, send them to Fort Benning.\nLet them come take an infantry course. My MOS [Military Occupational Specialty]\nwas as a tank officer. I'm playing bridge with these people. We were laughing\nabout the story that I got bounced down. I said, \"I'll tell you what. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You'd\nbetter go put in a request to go to the Fourth Infantry Division so you can\nimprove your abilities as a tank officer.\" He says, \"Nobody in the world knows,\nso don't you dare say it. But they're going to get orders within the next six\nweeks to go to Europe.\" So I spent two years in Europe.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You spent your Korea time in Europe. Got out then right after that?\n\nROMM: Got out. While I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the service, my dad had an opportunity to sell his\ninsurance agency. He had been in the insurance business here since 1911. They\nwanted to know, did I want to come home. I'd been a partner for about four or\nfive years. I liked the income I was getting, especially while I was in the\nservice. I said, \"I'm coming home.\" I didn't know how much I liked the army. I\nwas an honor graduate of ROTC and I could have become a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7050.0,7080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"regular army officer. I\nwas single. They didn't treat single people right. The married people had it\nmuch easier. They got fancier quarters and they had servants. They had this is\nin Europe. I got all the bad details and all the holidays. I was the officer of\nthe day [OOD] and everything else. I think they've stopped that in the service\nnow, but at the time it really wasn't fair. I had put in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7080.0,7110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an application for\nregular army and started having second thoughts. I went and actually pulled it\noff of the general's desk. It had been approved all the way up and I said, \"This\nisn't right.\" So I came home and I went to insurance school up in Baltimore\n[Maryland]. My daddy worked for USF\u0026G. In 1911, he was their mail clerk here in\nAtlanta. Five years from then, when he was 21, he was the chief ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7110.0,7140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"underwriter for\nbonds for the entire southeast of the USF\u0026G, which was really something. He'd\nbecome an agent and had a very good agency, so I went with him. I go off to this\ninsurance school and came back, and I said, \"Daddy, this isn't the same business\nthat I remember as a kid going with you to deliver policies and getting to write\npolicies and everything else. It's a whole new ballgame.\" He said, \"What are you\ntalking about?\" I said, \"Everybody's going to be a number.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I couldn't say, \"Is\nthis Mendel Romm's client?\" They're going to say, \"This is number six, seven,\nthree, eight, two, one. We don't want to do business with six, seven, three,\neight, two, one, so . . . \" Daddy said, \"Oh no, no, no.\" I think I was right,\nbecause it changed. It became a very impersonal business. Meantime, I got\ninvolved as an entrepreneur. I got into real estate, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"developed some properties,\nand had all kinds of ideas that were 20, 30 years ahead of [their] time. I had\nthe first licensed limousine company in Atlanta. I bought the franchise for\nCarey [Limousine Service]. I had part of a radio station with Lou Hertz, WERD. I\nowned part of a weekly newspaper in the West End with a young man from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7200.0,7230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Savannah\n[Georgia] whose father was very involved in one of the big companies down there.\nI just had all kinds of ideas that were just way ahead of themselves. I went\ninto a deal with a group of people. I don't think any of them are living\nanymore. Dave Senna, Matt [unintelligible], Al Garber, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7230.0,7260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sam Perling of Georgia\nShoe Manufacturing. There was a whole group of people. We bought this big tract\nof land, because one of our partners was the regional vice-president of A\u0026P.\nThey were looking for a site to build their southeastern headquarters and\nwarehouses on. When we had the closing, I found out all these people . . . I\nthought there were going to be ten of us . . . all of them took partners in. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7260.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One\nwoman had five percent, one had two-and-a half percent. I had ten percent. I\njust wasn't smart enough. When the gentlemen from A\u0026P got in some trouble\nbecause he owned some A\u0026P retail stores that they didn't know he owned, they\nkind of forced him to resign or retire. Meantime, we had this piece of property\nthat we had gone to a lot of trouble to get the railroad to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7290.0,7320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cross what was then\nGordon Road. We had no idea what we were going to do with it. Meantime, they\nwouldn't buy any more property, this group. I bought up about eight houses to\nthe west of it out Gordon Road to keep anybody from messing up the big piece of\nproperty. All of these people were very well-to-do. Here I am a little schnook\n[Yiddish: a person easily duped, a fool] doing this. I decided to go for some\napartments. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got one of my friends to invest with me. We built the nicest\napartments available for African-Americans in Atlanta. It came from having\nwatched Roswell Road develop with apartments early on, where the children of\npeople that lived in Tuxedo Park, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Buckhead area, their kids were getting\nmarried. They'd get an apartment on Roswell Road fairly close to their family\nhomes. I said, \"There's so many wealthy African- Americans around here. Their\nchildren are getting married, too. They ought to have a place that they would\nlike.\" It was very good. I had a waiting list. I kept expanding it. I had\ntenants like Hank Aaron ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Prentiss Yancey. I got Prentiss in with Smith,\nCohen, Ringel, Kohler \u0026 Martin [now Smith, Gambrell \u0026 Russell, LLP]. He was the\nfirst black to go into the law firm. I was involved in the thing. In fact, Andy\nYoung's first wife, about six months before she died, saw Anta out somewhere and\nsaid, \"You are the first person that really went all out to help Andy get\nelected to Congress.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7410.0,7440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was caught up in it. I had visions of things, of what\ncould happen. I was involved with a fellow named T.M. Alexander and Alexander,\nJr. They were in the insurance business, the real estate business. Through them\nI met the Rockefellers. We were going to change the world. The world changed me, instead.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That doesn't sound good, Mendel.\n\nROMM: I got greedy. I was too smart.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: What happened to that piece of property out on Gordon Road?\n\nROMM: I did develop a street called 'Peyton Place' and built some very nice\nlow-rise apartments there. I built what's called 'Peyton Towers.' I built a\ngroup of apartments called 'Peyton Place.' I turned them into condominiums. It\nwas one of the first conversions. I told you, everything I did, I did too early.\nI sold two-bedroom, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first-class units for $19,000, and three bedrooms for\n$21,000. I had to go around and talk to very educated people. They didn't\nunderstand what we were doing. One friend of mine, who died a couple years ago,\nthanked me every time he saw me. What a wonderful thing I did for him.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This is in the black community?\n\nROMM: You had to go back in Atlanta history as to what it was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This big piece of\nproperty we had backed up to a little bit over . . . I've got to think of the\nname of the road that shows you . . . Anyhow, we had a 'Berlin Wall' out there.\nI think it's called the 'Peyton Wall.' I think Ivan Allen was mayor. It was on\nHarlan Road and the encroachment in Cascade [Heights] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of blacks.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just for the record, what we're talking about is essentially the\ndivision between the black and the white communities until very recently.\n\nROMM: No question about it. I told Sam Massell, and he's finally agreed with me.\nSam Massell was our mayor at one time. That second term when he ran for office,\nI told him, \"Sam, your constituents aren't in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"city anymore.\" \"What are you\ntalking about?\" he said. I said, \"Ride up to Cascade Heights. In a period of a\nmonth, it changed from a white community to a black community.\" This was right\nafter they got the wall down, the 'Peyton Wall.' That was to keep people from\nbeing able to go into Cascade from Gordon Road.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This was a literal wall?\n\nROMM: No, it was barricades and . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . there weren't real barricades. . .\n\nROMM: . . . yes . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: . . . separating the black and the white communities . . .\n\nROMM: . . . with the idea of slowing down the movement of blacks into a white\ncommunity. But the whites moved out of there very fast. There are some very nice\nhomes out there in Cascade. That's where Andy Young lives now. A great number of\nwell-to-do blacks live there. A lot of them live ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"north of Gordon Road in Collier\nHeights. Big homes, I mean mansions, with indoor swimming pools. I was\nVice-President of the Standard Club at the time. I was asked to speak to a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"group\nwho was going to form a black country club. One of these professional club\npeople, Club Corporation of America or something, had the meeting at Herman\nRussell's home. Herman Russell is a very prominent . . . really one of the\nwealthiest men in Atlanta.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Right. Black real estate developer.\n\nROMM: The meeting was in his home. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He had a great big downstairs including an\nindoor swimming pool, which kind of shocked me at the time. I'm the one who\nkilled the thing. Those people were so upset. Not the community, but the whites\nwho were trying to promote this thing. I told them the only way they could have\na successful club was to include people who couldn't afford to belong. I named\nsome names . . . the gentleman who was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the head of the Butler Street YMCA . . .\ncertain ministers who were very prominent . . . the leadership . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . of the black community?\n\nROMM: . . . the leadership of Atlanta. Even then, everybody talked to them\nbefore they did anything. I said, \"You've got to have an exchange. It can't just\nbe people that got it. It's got to be people who have ideas and can . . . \" It\nkind of killed it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because at that time those people were not ready to be\nsocially progressive.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Just for the tape, the Butler Street 'Y' was an all-black YMCA [Young\nMens' Christian Association].\n\nROMM: It may not be all black.\n\nWEINTRAUB: I know white individuals who have stayed recently. They still have\nsleeping quarters at Butler. That's just for the tape.\n\nMendel I've got so many great stories. I wanted to be a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"professional scout. I\nwas very active in the Boy Scouts. In 1945, I was getting ready to talk about\ngoing to college. I was going to take social work so I could be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a professional\nBoy Scout leader. That's how involved I was. I get involved in things. I was\ntold, \"You realize there are only, at that time, two cities and maybe a third,\nwhere you can be a scout executive: New York or Chicago.\" I said, \"What?\" Then I\nrealized what they were talking about. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was Jewish. I had to go where they had\na big Jewish Scout movement. I guess that's antisemitism, but the man didn't\nmean any harm. He was just telling me what their policies were.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Which he did it in a very nice way, really. He could have just said,\n\"Hey, you're Jewish. You can't come here.\"\n\nROMM: I'm sure they had Jewish Scout ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"professionals . . . in New York and Chicago\n. . . maybe Philadelphia.\n\nWEINTRAUB: You developed condos. You worked with the black community.\n\nROMM: I worked with a group of black doctors. We built the finest medical\nbuilding in town.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What year are we talking about now?\n\nROMM: The doctor's building was in the 1960's.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Integration had already taken place, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or is this right at the\nbeginning of the movement?\n\nROMM: Integration took place, but not economic integration. For example,\nhistorically there used to not be any black sales people on automobile dealers'\nfloors. There weren't any black mechanics. Yet, you could ride in parts of town\nand you'd see cars up on bricks and people working on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them . . . good mechanics.\nThey, the unions or whoever, controlled who the mechanics would be at the\nautomobile [dealers]. The only jobs they got were porters in those kinds of\nplaces. One of my dreams that I worked with the Rockefellers on was to have a\nblack-owned dealership. It was going to be on a piece of property that I owned,\nother than the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7950.0,7980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one I talked about before, with nothing but black salespeople,\nblack mechanics . . . and make it something proud you get carved from this\ndealership. Through the Rockefellers, Chrysler Corporation was willing. This was\nin the late 1960's. I said, \"It's got to be a General Motors car.\" That's\nbecause ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Chrysler was already having trouble. It didn't have an inexpensive car\nthat was acceptable in the community. That didn't work, but I kept trying. I\nkept wanting to create things. I went to New York to get Macy's to build a store\non the west side of town. The chairman of the board was a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8010.0,8040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very well-known\nperson. He said, \"We're not going build that store.\" I'd gone to a lot of\ntrouble and expense of having a market study made of the area. Every criterion .\n. . income, age, everything. It could be 100 percent, except for one thing. They\nwere black. His argument was that if we open that store up, they'll start\nblackmailing us. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was like Amos 'n' Andy. I knew the executive\nvice-president. His daughter was one of my tenants in my nice apartments. He\nsaid, \"You and all of the other Greeks and Jews are trying to steal our\nproperty.\" I said, \"Sir, I don't want your property. I don't care what you do\nwith your property. I'm telling you, before you build a new home office building\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Auburn Avenue three blocks from Peachtree Street, you either move up to\nPeachtree and build a building or move out here on the west side, and create\nsomething new. I will give you two acres of land for your building. This is what\nI want to do. You're going to be at the top level of this piece of property.\nWe're going to have water cascading down towards Gordon Road, down Martin Luther\nKing [Boulevard], with the shops going up towards your home office ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"building.\"\nI'd already asked people like Bob Gerson, who owned Robley Hats, and was very\ninterested in men's clothing. I'd already asked some people like that if they\nwould be sponsors. Not own the stores, but help young . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . black. . .\n\nROMM: . . . people go into business. It would have been a natural. It would have\nbeen a mecca. The whole world would have come to see it. This man said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"You're\ntrying to steal our property.\" I said, \"Sir, I want to give you two acres.\nYou'll make me rich. Just come out here.\" Anyhow, I had great ideas. Some of\nthem worked and some didn't. One of my great political stories is one of the\nthings that you wanted to ask. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mr. Alexander said, \"Now you two should know\neach other, because you really know all the future of this town.\" About a year\nlater, if that long, Maynard ran for United States Senate against Herman\nTalmadge. I knew there was no chance, but I had to support him. We were as\nfriendly as you can get with politicians. Then he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8250.0,8280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ran for vice-mayor, at the\nsame time Sam Massell ran for mayor. Maynard already knew that Sam was a friend\nof mine and I wasn't interested. I'd already gotten mad at local politics,\nbecause I never wanted any favors from the government as part of my do-goodness.\nI supported Maynard for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vice-mayor. When he decided to run against Sam for\nmayor, at the time I told Sam, \"Your constituency has moved.\" I told Maynard,\n\"Maynard, this man's been a friend of mine my whole life. You can count on me\nfor anything four years from now. But I'm going to be for Sam.\" I don't think\nI've ever told Sam this story, but when he reads this someplace, he'll know it.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8310.0,8340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When they had the run-off election between the two of them, I didn't like the ad\ncampaign that the [Massell] group ran. \"Don't let Atlanta become like . . .\" and\nthey named one or two other cities that had black leadership.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: I gave Maynard, not as much as I'd given him previous times he'd run, but\nI gave him $500. It was like giving $5,000 today. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8340.0,8370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He did not speak to me for\neight years that he was mayor of the city.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Give me a year of this first run, approximately.\n\nROMM: In the 1970's, I would guess . . . whenever Sam Massell was mayor. It was\nthat time. About eight or nine years later, my daughter comes home from one of\nthe local schools and says, \"Daddy, I met a man. He just said the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most wonderful\nthings about you. He was so happy to find out I was your daughter.\" \"Who's\nthat?\" [She said], \"Maynard Jackson.\" I said, \"He must be planning to run for\noffice again.\" It's really amazing, because it gave me a real bad taste of\npolitics. I've been involved in a lot of political things, but that was just\n[uncalled] for. It was a question of, deep down, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his dislike of whites. I'd tell\nhim to his face today. I found that, as I did a lot of these things, I thought I\nwas doing good things. I got called about my secretary's husband who lost his\njob with the YMCA. I gave him a job to oversee a building project I had. He was\nhiring people from prison. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I mean, I'm all for whatever it takes. My foreman\nfired three men, two blacks and a white, for being drunk on the job. They went\nto the Concerned Black Clergy and said because they were friendly and lived\ntogether, that's why this redneck from Alabama fired them. I had to go to a\nkangaroo court . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Reverend [Joseph Everhart] Boone . . . Joe Boone. I'll\nalways remember him, because he told me, \"Mr. Romm, we've always heard nice\nthings about you but you're a racist, like all the rest of them.\" I said, \"Sir,\nI don't know who you heard that from, but I'm not a racist. I'll tell you what\nwe're going to do. We're closing this job down. We're not going to build these\nbuildings. We're just going to forget about it. You're putting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about 100 people\nout of work, of which 70 or 80 are black.\" I said, \"If you want to boycott me .\n. . (I think at the time had about five or six hundred tenants) . . . \"I think I\ncan find a few hundred of them that'll come out here and march in opposition.\nThe man that you don't like, he came from Addison, Alabama, and he's learned\nthat we're making our money from black people. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The money is what's important.\" I\nsaid, \"You ask him when they call up and say their air conditioning isn't\nworking, who's up there in ten minutes to fix their air conditioning. Or if\ntheir door's not locking right . . . anything. This man knows he's working for\nthose people. He's polite and he's nice. If anybody ever complained, I'd been up\nthere complained about.\" I said, \"I'm not having drunks working for me. I don't\ncare who they are or what they do, or anything else. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We're doing something.\nSomebody can get hurt.\" They didn't know (and I'll put this in the history) I\nowned the land, free and clear. I had not made the first construction\n[unintelligible]. We had put in the prelim, the roughed-in plumbing, the pipes\nwere sticking up, and we had poured the slab over. That could sit there for\nyears. I didn't owe any money. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They didn't know that. They thought they had me.\n\"Hey, he's building there. He's got to have money. He's going to do something.\"\nI just wasn't going to do it. So they came back about it. I took all of my\n'so-called friends,' leaders in the black community, some of my doctors from the\noffice building, and the Alexanders, T.M. Junior who had been in [President\nDwight David] Eisenhower's cabinet as the undersecretary of HUD [Department of\nHousing and Urban Development]. I had all of these [people] that came. They\ndidn't open their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mouths up. They sat there like bumps on the wall. When we had\na little break, they came out and said, \"Don't worry about it Mendel. We've got\nthe thing taken care of.\" I said, \"You didn't take care of it very good. That\nman called me all kinds of names in there.\" I said, \"You only need to stand up\nand say, 'Hey, you're talking about our friend. This is a good guy.'\" Anyhow,\nthey compromised about a week later. They said if I rehired the three guys and\ngive them a second chance they'd forget about it. I said, \"Not if they get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"drunk again.\"\n\nWEINTRAUB: Are you talking about black racism against whites, or about\nantisemitism in the black community?\n\nROMM: No, not there. In those days, I don't remember ever hearing anybody . . .\nblack people . . . I was around them a lot . . . none of them ever said anything\nthat was close to being antisemitic. It was anti-white. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If I had it to do over\nagain, I played the game wrong . . . part of my greed. I'd ask new black people\nwho moved to town, \"Where are you going to live?\" \"There's only one place to\nlive.\" They'd name one of my deals. It was about the same time they started\nopening up housing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"apartments all over the city to blacks. These people who were\nhigh-up government employees who had been transferred here were living with me.\nStar baseball player, Hank Aaron, didn't live there that long. His family came\nand bought a house. But I had Joe Coldwell with the [Atlanta] Hawks, a lot of\nwell-known people, and the children of the people that I envisioned living\nthere. But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they all bought homes. In fact, some of them bought homes out here in Buckhead.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: Which I liked, because our way was for people to get in.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's a far change from the Atlanta you grew up in.\n\nROMM: Yes. Martin Luther King was born four days after I was . . . within four\nblocks . . . close to Georgia Baptist, now the Atlanta Medical Center. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was on\nAuburn Avenue, at the family home. They were too high up to go to Grady\nHospital, the public hospital, and had a midwife. We were on St. Charles. He\nlived over there on Auburn Avenue . . . less than a mile and a half, from each\nother. If we hadn't gone to Grammar School together, we definitely would have\ngone to high school together. He would have gone to Boys' High. He wouldn't have\ngone to Tech High . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINTRAUB: Except Boys' High was segregated at that time.\n\nROMM: That's what I'm saying. We were born at different places. We grew up and\ndidn't know each other. We would have gone to high school [together], if not for\nsegregation. We didn't meet until [we were] in our thirties, just a few years\nbefore he got killed. That is a change in what's happened.\n\nWEINTRAUB: For the better?\n\nROMM: The change?\n\nWEINTRAUB: Yes.\n\nROMM: Of course, it's better . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and the pendulum will swing. Where we worry\nabout one group having too many rights, it'll swing the other way. Sooner or\nlater, if things work out, it will be down the middle. We'll all be one happy family.\n\nWEINTRAUB: Politically, you consider yourself?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: I'm independent. I vote for individuals and for issues based on what I\nthink they are. But down deep, it has to go back to my upbringing. I think I'm a\nliberal, big 'L,' person.\n\nWEINTRAUB: This has been interesting. There are about seven minutes left on the\ntape. Any personal remarks you'd like to make that we may have missed? We've\ncovered a fair amount of ground today.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ROMM: You asked me what happened to the Mayfair Club. The Mayfair Club burned\ndown. We had enough insurance, because the head insurance man was very fair. He\nmade sure every insurance member of the club got part of it. He made sure that\nthe coverage was right. We ended up with a considerable amount of money, owned\nthe land. Now the land includes where the Selig Center ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is, and there's a motel\nnorth of that next to the road . . .\n\nWEINTRAUB: . . . that would be Peachtree[Street] and Spring [Street].\n\nROMM: There's a road runs straight into the old Retail Credit Building on\nPeachtree. There's a bridge there. The Mayfair Club was south of that bridge,\nbecause to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8940.0,8970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"north of that bridge is the Peachtree Christian Church's parking\nlot. We played with ideas of getting them to sell to build a high-rise building.\nWe'd have the club on the top of it, and give him the land in exchange for many\nyears of rent. We needed an in-town club. There were a lot of people who had,\nover the years, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=8970.0,9000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"become widows or moved away. They owned bonds. Max Cuba, may he\nrest in peace, Man of the Year, organized those people to liquidate. The old\ntown people who were still around, and members who were willing to take the\nmoney and give it to charity. If you don't want a club, let's do something big\nwith it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9000.0,9030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But there was a lot of . . . big word . . . greed among people. They\nwanted their $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, or whatever they were going to get. That's\nwhy there was no longer a Mayfair Club. The Standard Club was having financial\nproblems. They made a deal for members of the Mayfair Club to join the Standard\nClub for the same amount of money they were getting from the liquidation of the\nclub. Mr. Cuba was also very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9030.0,9060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in advising the Standard Club how to\noperate. Mr. Cuba came from the old Progressive Club, too.\n\nWEINTRAUB: What happened to the Progressive Club?\n\nROMM: We didn't have a lot of eating places right in town. As the town expanded,\npeople moved further out. We started getting restaurants and the other things,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"football and baseball. It just became a luxury that people didn't see they\nneeded any more. They tried different things. The old card players . . . wanted\nto continue playing. They tried other locations. [It was] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9090.0,9120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a big mistake that the\nStandard Club made, not buying the Progressive Club on Moores Mill Road at the\nexpressway [Interstate 75]. Then they could have had a town club. It's too far\nto ride out to eat at the Standard Club now. There are a hundred good\nrestaurants within a couple miles from here. You don't need to go.\n\nWEINTRAUB: No Jewish Clubs in Atlanta then. [Both men are talking, interview\nresumes] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9120.0,9150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Let me ask one more question, because it was in the paper recently. The\nCommerce Club . . .\n\nROMM: Want a great antisemitic joke? When the Commerce Club was formed, Mills B.\nLane was the Chairman of the Board of the C\u0026S National Bank. People got invited\nto join. I wasn't invited. I didn't think a thing of it. 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The vice-president said, \"I'll take care of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9180.0,9210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that. Are\nyou joining, Mendel?\" I said, \"They didn't invite me.\" He looked into it and we\ngot invitations. I found out that each officer of the bank was supposed to go\nthrough their customers, and pick names to submit for membership. The young\nofficer who had my name even told some people he wasn't going to let any Jews\njoin the club. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9210.0,9240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I joined anyway.\n\nWEINTRAUB: My understanding of the club originally was to bring the Christian,\nJewish and black communities together.\n\nROMM: No blacks in there when we opened that club.\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's right. By law, they couldn't have. But to bring . . .\n\nROMM: . . . I didn't know it was law. Just I've got a feeling they're going to\nmove. If all the big law firms are moving, it's a shame. The salvation of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9240.0,9270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"downtown, obviously at this point, is for Georgia State [University--Atlanta,\nGeorgia] to keep getting bigger.\n\nWEINTRAUB: The reason I bring this up, is to show again the difference between\nthe time when you knew everyone downtown, to the fact that downtown Atlanta no\nlonger exists. It's a question.\n\nROMM: That 'Downtown' is now 'Midtown'. 'Midtown' would be 'Downtown.'\n\nWEINTRAUB: The city has moved out.\n\nROMM: The state government will eventually. 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What you consider ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Midtown, wasn't\nthat Downtown?\n\nWEINTRAUB: No. Where Macy's was is downtown. Where Rich's was.\n\nROMM: Five Points. Some friends of mine had houses right there on Peachtree [Street].\n\nWEINTRAUB: That's right, but not many. Anyway, there's been a change. That's\nwhat we've explored for the couple hours we've been together. Your life and the\nlife of the city of Atlanta. With a minute left, thank you. It's been a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9330.0,9360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/transcript/23665/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pleasure\ntalking with you, Mendel.\n\nROMM: All I can do is talk and talk.\n\nWEINTRAUB: We'll try again another day. Maybe someone will listen to this and\nsay, \"Hey we needed another three hours.\" Again, thank you, Mendel.\n\nROMM: Thank you, sir.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=9360.0,9390.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Romm, Mendel [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) is best known for his role as a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement and the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.  A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.  He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech.  On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.  In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing.  King was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.  King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a United States federal holiday in 1986.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, or simply the Civil War in the United States, was fought from 1861 to 1865, after Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. The states that remained in the Union were known as the \"Union\" or the \"North\".  After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and granting civil rights to freed slaves began.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePizitz was a major regional department store chain in Alabama, with its flagship store in downtown Birmingham. At its peak it operated 12 other stores, mostly in the Birmingham area with several locations in Huntsville and other Alabama cities. The chain was founded as the Louis Pizitz Dry Goods Co. in 1899 on the site of its flagship building in downtown Birmingham. It was sold to McRae's in December 1986, and all former Pizitz stores became McRae's. Many of the former Pizitz locations are now closed, but the Pizitz family (via Pizitz Management Group) still owns the buildings of most of its former stores. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRich's was a department store retail chain, headquartered in Atlanta that operated in the southern U.S. from 1867 until 2005. The retailer began in Atlanta as M. Rich \u0026amp; Co. dry goods store and was run by Mauritius Reich (anglicized to Morris Rich), a Hungarian Jewish immigrant. It was renamed M. Rich \u0026amp; Bro. in 1877, when his brother Emanuel was admitted into the partnership, and was again renamed M. Rich \u0026amp; Bros. in 1884 when the third brother Daniel was joined the partnership. In 1929, the company was reorganized and the retail portion of the business became simply, Rich's. Many of the former Rich's stores today form the core of Macy's Central, an Atlanta-based division of Macy's, Inc., which formerly operated as Federated Department Stores, Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWiley Hardeman Post (1898-1935) was a famed American aviator during the period known as the Golden Age of Aviation, and was the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/37303/file/106330/annotation_set/407/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Brandeis University National Women's Committee is the largest \"friends of a library\" group in the world with 48,000 members nationwide. A volunteer fundraising organization, it has contributed more than $58 million in support of the libraries of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. 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Soon, some 10,000 white men and boys began gathering on Decatur Street in the Five Points area downtown.  While the newspaper story was the catalyst, the deeper causes lay in increasing racial tensions between blacks and whites, Jim Crow segregation, and Reconstruction politics.  Attempts to calm the mob failed and it turned violent.  The militia was summoned and streetcar service suspended in an attempt to drive the rioters from the streets. There was even a gun battle between the militias and armed black men. 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