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Parks are for the People: The Piedmont Park Riot and the Politics of Late 1960s Atlanta

Christopher A. Huff·August 21, 2018
Christopher Huff recounts the 1969 police riot in Piedmont Park and explains what it reveals about the politics of late 1960s Atlanta, and especially around the then booming “Hip” community in the city. Read More
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The Tie That Binds: White Church Response to Neighborhood Racial Change in Atlanta, 1960–1985

Preston Hogue·March 6, 2018
Preston Hogue describes how white churches in 1960s–1980s Atlanta drew on racist ideologies and religious values in responding to racial transitions in their neighborhoods. Read More
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“My Real Life Work Was Done at Atlanta”: Aldon Morris on W. E. B. Du Bois’ Career in Atlanta

Barbara Harris Combs and Katherine Hankins·May 25, 2017
Barbara Harris Combs and Katherine Hankins interview Aldon Morris about W. E. B. Du Bois’ twenty-three year career at Atlanta University in the early twentieth century. Read More
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Excluded from “Everybody’s Neighborhood”? Constructing Sandy Springs’ New City Center

Elisa Lanari·February 9, 2017
Elisa Lanari examines the conflicting interpretations of suburban redevelopment in downtown Sandy Springs. Read More
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Music and Art in the Black Mecca: Atlanta’s Black Cultural Politics from Maynard to Keisha

Maurice J. Hobson, Joycelyn Wilson, and R. Candy Tate·July 10, 2018
Videos of presentations by Maurice Hobson, Joycelyn Wilson, and R. Candy Tate’s on key issues in the Black cultural politics of Atlanta from the 1970s to today. Read More
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Power and Place-Naming: The Struggle for a New Urban Order in Midtown, 1870–1970

Jessica L. Keys·January 25, 2018
Jessica Keys unpacks the century-long history of changing place-names for the area we now today as Midtown and explores what those changing names might tell us about the area's history. Read More
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A Purposely Built Community: Public Housing Redevelopment and Resident Replacement at East Lake Meadows

Adam Goldstein·March 14, 2017
Adam Goldstein examines the redevelopment of East Lake Meadows in the 1990s and the more complicated history behind the boosterish myths about it. Read More
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The Rise and Fall of Atlanta’s Skid Row

Charles Steffen·December 6, 2016
Charles Steffen examines the institutional infrastructure of Atlanta’s former Skid Row in the South Downtown Business District and its eventual dismantling. Read More
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Learning our Lessons: Civics Education, Urban Planning, and Race in Postwar Atlanta

Katie Marages Schank·May 31, 2018
Katie Marages Schank explores the mid-century Atlanta textbook Building Atlanta’s Future and the lessons we might learn from its erasure of African Americans from its representation of the city and its public housing. Read More
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Voices Rising: Translating Methods to Teach Atlanta

Adam Perry Newman·November 16, 2017
Ruth Yow and Sarah O'Brien discuss their pedagogical approaches to teaching about Atlanta and the ways we come to know a city. Read More
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The Making and Unmaking of Modern Atlanta: Is the “Black Mecca” Eroding?

Andrea Young and Maurice J. Hobson·February 16, 2017
Videos of a conversation between Andrea Young and Maurice J. Hobson about the history of Atlanta as a “Black Mecca” from the 1960s through the 1996 Olympic Games. Read More
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Art and Activism in 1970s Atlanta

Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, and Kirstie Tepper·October 4, 2016
Julia Brock, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, and Kirstie Tepper discuss the emergence of a new Atlanta art scene in the late 1970s and the central role that women played in it. Read More
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