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The Black Side: a partial history of the business, religious, and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. (1894) Dorsey, Allison. To build our lives together: Community formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 (University of Georgia Press, 2004) online. Ferguson, Karen Jane. Black politics in New Deal Atlanta (Univ of North Carolina Press ...
The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world," one of the largest concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States.
Historic Collier Heights is a historically middle-class and predominately African-American populated area in western Atlanta.It is bordered to the west by Fairburn Road, the east by Hamilton E. Holmes Drive, the north by Donald L. Hollowell Parkway, and to the south by the Interstate 20 bridge at Linkwood Road.
Charles Hicks, nicknamed “Mr. Black History’’ in Washington, D.C, remembered attending a Black History Month event in 2016 at the Department of Justice where his longtime friend, the late ...
The way it was in the South: The Black experience in Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 2001). Grantham, Dewey W. "Georgia Politics and the Disfranchisement of the Negro." Georgia Historical Quarterly 32.1 (1948): 1-21. online; Hornsby, Alton. "Black Public Education in Atlanta, Georgia, 1954-1973: From Segregation to Segregation."
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This is a list of African American Historic Places in Georgia.This was originally based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, [1] which may primarily have addressed sites that were listed, or were eligible for listing, on the National Register of Historic ...
Freaknik (/ ˈ f r iː k n ɪ k /; originally Freaknic) was an annual spring break festival in Atlanta, Georgia.It was initially attended by students enrolled at historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center. [1]