Tag: Atlanta

  • In a nod to his incisive work, artist Genevieve Gaignard presents a new exhibition, “This is America: The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity,” at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from Feb. 12 – May 15. It’s the first solo exhibition of the multidisciplinary artist’s photography and installation work, through which she unravels the ongoing issues…

  • United States Census Shows Great Increase in Percentage of Mixed Element.

  • The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…

  • A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy

  • As a Jew of color, your identity and loyalty are constantly questioned.

  • The youthful branch secretary who sparked this drive, Walter Francis White, called this “our first fight and our first victory and … we have only begun to fight.”

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • The Herndons: An Atlanta Family University of Georgia Press 2002-06-21 272 pages 8 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2309-1 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia A compelling portrait of one of Atlanta’s most prominent African American families Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red…

  • African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections 2004-03-17 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia The development of the African American community in Atlanta is a fruitful subject…

  • Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…