Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph W. Jones Room. Developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), the smartphone-friendly tour provides GPS directions and mapping, historical...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...spectators to see similar logics of "unritual" at work in all of them, logics that signal the longue-durée effects of racialized slavery whereby Black people remain subject to violence and...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...of awareness about the impact of the Great Migration on American politics and culture. At the time there was little non-scholarly nonfiction available on the subject, and no documentaries that...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Dr. Kevin Johnson to design the fall 2015 "Collaborative Arts" seminar that culminated in LiFT's #DareToBe event. For her final project, each student created a project to perform or feature at...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...they do possess something invaluable to the city’s future—black history. LiFT Art Salon intentionally operates out of historically black buildings, spaces, and cultural centers to redirect Atlanta's young adult population...
Frank Willis
...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...The "slave market" became the focal point for the 1964 St. Augustine Movement—a clash between nonviolent protestors and segregationists—prior to President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act.2Dan R. Warren,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...century a few southern states had established boards of health. By 1913, every southern state had established a state health agency, identified the insect carriers of malaria and yellow fever, and...
Seneca Quarry
...slaves working on the project—and possibly many more. In fact, a majority of workers for this project may have been slaves.1National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of...