{"id":19356,"date":"2011-12-29T03:57:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2017-02-08T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:39:04","slug":"the-herndons-an-atlanta-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19356","title":{"rendered":"The Herndons: An Atlanta Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Herndons: An Atlanta Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Georgia Press<\/a>
\n2002-06-21
\n272 pages
\n8 x 10
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2309-1<\/p>\n

Carole Merritt<\/strong>, Director
\nThe Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A compelling portrait of one of Atlanta’s most prominent African American families<\/em><\/p>\n

Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon<\/a> (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red clay fields of Georgia<\/a>. Within forty years of Emancipation<\/a>, however, he had amassed a fortune that far surpassed that of his White slave-master father.<\/p>\n

Through his barbering, real estate, and life insurance ventures, Herndon would become one of the wealthiest and most respected African American business figures of his era. This richly illustrated book chronicles Alonzo Herndon\u2019s ascent and his remarkable family\u2019s achievements in Jim Crow<\/a> Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this first biography of the Herndons, Carole Merritt narrates how Herndon nurtured the Atlanta Life Insurance Company<\/a> from a faltering enterprise he bought for $140 into one of the largest Black financial institutions in America; how he acquired the most substantial Black property holdings in Atlanta; and how he developed his barbering business from a one-chair shop into the nation\u2019s largest and most elegant parlor, the resplendent, twenty-three chair \u201cCrystal Palace\u201d in the heart of White Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The Herndons\u2019 world was the educational and business elite of Atlanta. But as Blacks, they were intimately bound to the course of Black life. The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906<\/a> and its impact on the Herndons demonstrated that all Blacks, regardless of class, were the victims of racial terrorism.<\/p>\n

Through the Herndons, issues of race, class, and color in turn-of-the-century Atlanta come into sharp focus. Their story is one of by-the-bootstraps resolve, tough compromises in the face of racism, and lasting contributions to their city and nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,17,20],"tags":[8923,8924,8922,7488,8921,3192,463],"class_list":["post-19356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-alonzo-f-herndon","tag-alonzo-franklin-herndon","tag-alonzo-herndon","tag-atlanta","tag-carole-merritt","tag-georgia","tag-university-of-georgia-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51435,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions\/51435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}