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Oakland Cemetery

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Filmed in July 2009, this segment focuses on historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1850, many settlers and prominent figures in Atlanta's history have been buried in this garden cemetery.
Steve Bransford
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Mapping the Challenges to the Sustainable Operation of Suburban Villages in a Metropolis: A Comparative Case Study from the Lens of Three Stakeholder-Led Approaches

open access: yesLand, 2021
In the rapid urbanization and land development process, the integration of urban and rural areas has accelerated. Alongside this trend, the sustainable operation of suburban villages in metropolitan areas face many difficulties and challenges, especially
Xinyue Lu   +3 more
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White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2005
On November 3, 2005, Dr. Kevin Kruse of Princeton University's History Department spoke at Emory University about several themes developed in his book White Flight (2005), a study of segregationists' strategies and ideologies in Atlanta.
Kevin Kruse
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Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Poets Natasha Trethewey and Elizabeth Alexander discuss real and imagined spaces and places, Upsouth and down home, in this October 16, 2009, interview in New Haven, Connecticut. Alexander also reads and comments on several of her poems.
Elizabeth Alexander
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Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Saralyn Chesnut, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth Anderson explore the history of Charis Books and More, Atlanta's feminist bookstore.
Saralyn Chesnut   +2 more
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Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Damage from the Reform Temple bombing, October 1958. Courtesy of the Cuba Archives of the Breman Museum. Clive Webb revisits the 1958 bombing of the Atlanta Reform Temple, when militant white supremacists expressed their resistance to ...
Clive Webb
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Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2018
Andrew M. Busch reviews Eliot M. Tretter's Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016).
Andrew M. Busch
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The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2017
Digital mapping strategies and tools have the potential to reveal new insights into (and offer corrections of) accepted accounts of historical situations. S.
S. Wright Kennedy
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Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2009
Grace McKinley takes Rita Buchanan and Linda McKinley to school among protesters, Nashville, TN, September 1957. © Nashville Public Library. In September 1957, three years after the US Supreme Court declared school segregation laws unconstitutional ...
John Egerton
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African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2004
The development of the African American community in Atlanta is a fruitful subject for the study of race in America. Racial policy and practice in response to emancipation and the failures of reconstuction were evolving in Atlanta during the late ...
Carole Merritt
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