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...
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...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
...and joined the Princeton history Department the same year. His first book White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005), argues that the movement of whites out 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...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
Confederate fort near Atlanta, Georgia, part of the city's inner ring of fortification, 1864. Photographic print by George H. Barnard. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Atlanta. It was also a milestone show for the High Museum, at it was the first solo show the institution has dedicated to an Atlanta-based artist.3See http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13925208. Memory as Medicine...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Series." Gordon Parks: A Segregation Story, on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through June 21, 2015, presents the published and unpublished photographs that Parks took during...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...Atlanta, Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886, Daniel A. Pollock's "The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance," May 30, 2014. Painting courtesy of Southern Spaces. Doster: Many of the pieces mentioned above...
Announcing: Trouble the Land: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities
...Atlanta Movement” traces the beginnings of the civil rights movement in Atlanta. With an emphasis on the 1940s and 1950s, topics covered include Atlanta's historical pattern of "accommodation" on racial...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...to impede the gentrification of southwest Atlanta, and Food4Lives a non-profit started by Georgia Tech and Emory students provides food and supplies for the unhoused in the greater Atlanta area.7Katie...