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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 ...
Atlanta University, first Atlanta black college, founded. 1867 - Young Men's Library Association founded. [11] 1868 Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital. [1] Constitution newspaper begins publication. [12] 1869 - Clark College founded. 1870 - Population: 21,789. [7] 1871 Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating. [1] [13] Public school system ...
Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working Class Women and\ Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 (U of Georgia Press, 2005). Hobson, Maurice J. The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1996 (PhD Diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010).
Civil rights advocates saw it as an attack on Black voters, who helped Democrats win the presidential contest in Georgia in 2020 for the first time since 1992 and later take the state’s two U.S ...
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
As the event became more popular to the general public, Black people from all regions of the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Europe came to participate in it. At its peak in the 1990s, the event attracted well over 250,000 people each year. [12] Also the event was a major economic stimulus for the Atlanta area. It is estimated by 1994 ...
Attempts to alter the way Black history is taught would “make it near impossible to describe the daily events during the era of slavery or during the Civil Rights Movement,” writes Larry Fennelly.
Atlanta Black Pride started in 1996 and is one of two officially recognized festivals for the African-American LGBT community. [1] It is held in Atlanta each year at the end of August and beginning of September (week of Labor Day holiday).