Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...of twelve significant moments in the Battle of Atlanta," Croxall said. "To learn that the first shots were fired near a local high school or to realize that its most...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...David Lindsey and friends performing “Downhome Blues” at Maxwell Street, the famous street market on Chicago’s West Side. In the last century, Maxwell Street transformed from a commercial center for...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...relations between current AUC students and their host neighborhood. On the contrary. During my time as a Morehouse undergraduate, I stayed primarily on campus and rarely connected with the West...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...spread across the city's many neighborhoods. The rebranding of City Hall East, Krog Street, and the Atlanta Railroad as Ponce City Market, Krog Street Market, and the celebrated Atlanta Beltline underscores a shared aesthetic at the heart of...
Frank Willis
...when school let out for summer and eat clam strips. Water- gate was where we stopped in a carpool one year to fetch the sickly boy for day camp, where...
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...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...that preceded it, through a motorcade stopping at sites of memory. Simultaneously, about 350 pickup trucks, cars, and motorcycles, most of them sporting the Confederate battle flag, participated in a...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...successful Kickstarter campaign. Fiend at Inner Recess studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Holly Hobbs, 2014. Holly Hobbs at the Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014. Photograph by Jason...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...Chapel Hill. On an August evening in 1906, a white mob stormed the county jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, seeking six black prisoners indicted that day for the brutal murder...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Community with Music” About Nick Spitzer Nick Spitzer, folklorist and anthropologist, is known for his work with community-based cultures of the Gulf Coast, American vernacular music, musicians, craftspeople, documentary media,...