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
...Labor in 1988.21Atlanta Labor Pool Worker's Union, Atlanta's Hardest Working People: A Report on Day Labor Pools in Metro Atlanta, (Atlanta: Atlanta Labor Pool Workers' Union, n.d., 1997). This report...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Invention of an International City, 1940-1990 (Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1996); Harvey K. Newman, Southern Hospitality: Tourism and the Growth of Atlanta (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999); Larry Keating, Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...William T. Sherman's Atlanta campaign, but Sherman allowed Black people to serve in military support roles. Courtesy of the Atlanta History Center. In the 1880s and 1890s, the Atlanta panorama,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...decades ago. The recent history of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)3Officially the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, the "metro Atlanta" region includes the following twenty-eight counties: Barrow, Bartow,...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...attracting both white and black Atlantans and influencing the repeal of Atlanta's 1885 prohibition law.15Goodson, 59–60. Atlanta entrepreneurs often blurred the line between entertainment and transportation in their financial endeavors....
Trouble the Land: Prelude to the Atlanta Movement
...(2:00) Narrator: Segregated by Jim Crow laws, Atlanta's Black population developed a network of independent businesses, churches, and community institutions, including a remarkable cluster of five Black colleges around Atlanta...
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."1In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal...
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...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...Human Rights was originally published in the Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal, and Atlanta Daily World. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Scan is in public domain. Julian Bond: Well, this very first...