White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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
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
Saralyn Chesnut, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth Anderson explore the history of Charis Books and More, Atlanta's feminist bookstore.
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Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
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
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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Biodiversity and environment in cities —A case study of birds in urban and suburban areas of Japan
In Japan, the environmental degradation in the urban and urban fringe area advanced from rapid economic growth to begin at the mid-1950s. The environmental aggravation such as large-scale development of the city with little consideration of environment, air pollution and the noise and so on had a big influence at the biological diversity.
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Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
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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The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
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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African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
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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Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Through this online exhibit, artist collective John Q maps discursive memorials at public sites in Atlanta's queer histories.
Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, Joey Orr
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