History
Photo Cred: Kevin Sparrow
The Research Team Behind the History Project
Photo Cred: The Integral Group
Building the Historical Record: Archives, Oral Histories, and What Comes Next
The history of the Old Fourth Ward is rich, layered, and often scattered across archives throughout the city. The research initiative behind the redevelopment of the Atlanta Medical…
Photo Cred: Historypin
The Summerhill Riots: Atlanta’s Unfinished Struggle for Justice.
On the evening of September 6, 1966, the city of Atlanta, and especially the neighborhood of Summerhill, erupted in protest after the killing of Harold Prather, a 25-year-old Black man shot multiple times by police as he ran toward his home…
Photo Cred: The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project
Say His Name: The Murder of 16-year-old Hulet Varner Jr.
In the late summer of 1966, Atlanta’s image as a “city too busy to hate” was shattered. The story of Hulet Varner Jr.’s murder and the trial of William Haywood James captures a revealing moment in Atlanta’s mid-century history…
Photo Cred: Atlanta Archive
A Physician’s Calling: Len Broughton and Atlanta’s Healing Faith
Atlanta’s history is filled with figures who blurred the line between faith and public life, but few did so as completely, or as lastingly, as Dr. Len Broughton. A physician-turned-pastor,
Broughton not only founded the Tabernacle Baptist Church…
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