African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...She was furthering her drama studies and was also escaping Atlanta, a city that had just undergone the worst racial violence in Georgia. In the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906,...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the Atlanta Panorama Company. As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches,...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...1950s displaced many Black Atlantans Part 7: Dr. Wiese describes long-term impacts of spatially-oriented discrimination Part 8: Dr. Wiese describes how recent suburbanization in Atlanta and across the US continues to reinforce...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Atlanta, Georgia At one time, Atlanta offered the Piedmont, Thunderbird, Bankhead, Stewart, Fulton Boulevard, Bolton, and Starlight drive-ins. Now only the Starlight remains, one of seven operational Georgia drive-ins. Among...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...entomologist ran notices that DDT "might have a deadly effect on Georgia's bee industry."42"Use Care with DDT, Farmers Are Warned," Atlanta Journal, August 1, 1945. Atlanta papers reported complaints of...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
LiFT curator Shady speaks at the Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of LiFT Art Salon. I grew up in metro Atlanta watching revitalization efforts...