The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...2006, Atlanta, Georgia. Ed Loring and interviewer Terry Easton discuss a photograph of day laborers. Audio recorded February 19, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. As Atlanta's booming economy fueled residential and commercial...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Race Relations: Atlanta, Georgia, 1946-1981 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996); Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta; Gary M. Pomerantz, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta (New York:...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...incidents in the fight."81 "Right at Home," Atlanta Constitution, February 23, 1892, 9. Battle of Atlanta cyclorama brochure, 1939. The image shows the cyclorama rotunda in Atlanta's Grant Park, where...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta. As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1 In May 1966, "the Atlanta...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...and La Chat engage in a humorous exchange of insults between the sexes. Atlanta Atlanta's status as the Dirty South's capital rests upon two interrelated features: its status as a...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
Atlanta Temple Bombing On the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, shortly after 3:30 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Reform Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Although no one...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Maps of Olympic Ring in downtown Atlanta, 1996 Atlanta Games The Centennial Summer Olympic Games opened on the evening of Friday, July 19, 1996, at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Stadium (now...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
Introduction Atlanta's feminist bookstore, Charis Books and More, founded in November 1974, remains a central fixture of Atlanta's Little Five Points, a revitalized inner-city business district that spills over into...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...of the Appalachian chain supports the geographical and economic framework within which race can fruitfully be studied. Bi-racial and Bi-ethnic Atlanta Until recent decades, Atlanta's population, like that of the...