Resources

"Guidebook for Neighborhood Residential Problems", circa 1975

"Guidebook for Neighborhood Residential Problems," undated

Atlanta Urban League Data Sheet: Avondale and Scottsdale, Georgia, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Urban League Neighborhood Information Data Sheet on Avondale, June 20, 1952

Correspondence from Avondale Colored High School, February 10, 1947

Correspondence from Avondale High School, February 10, 1947

"NPU Notes", August 1978

"NPU Notes," newsletter, August 1978

Listed below are resources used for research and images for the exhibit.

Archival Collections:

  1. Atlanta Community Relations Commission collection
  2. Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative records
  3. Neighborhood Union collection
  4. Atlanta Urban League papers
  5. Grace Towns Hamilton papers
  6. John H. Calhoun, Jr. papers
  7. Vivian W. Henderson papers
  8. Samuel W. Williams papers
  9. Johnsontown Neighborhood collection
  10. Atlanta Neighborhood Planning vertical file

Secondary Sources: 

  1. The Separate City Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968 by Christopher Silver and John V. Moeser
  2. To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 by Allison Dorsey
  3. Lest We Forget: Atlanta's Disappearing Black Neighborhoods by Athlone G Clarke
  4. Lugenia Burns Hope: Black Southern Reformer by Jacqueline Anne Rouse
  5. "How well do you know Atlanta's historically black neighborhoods?" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6. "Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility" Southern Spaces
  7. "It’s going to take more than $45 million* to help Vine City," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  8. "Five years after Mercedes-Benz Stadium broke ground, is Atlanta’s Westside revival working?" Curbed Atlanta
  9. Lightning, Struck: How an Atlanta Neighborhood Died on the Altar of Super Bowl Dreams," The Bitter Southerner
  10. "Atlanta’s “Black Mecca” status is more complicated than it seems," Atlanta Magazine
Atlanta Urban League Data Sheet of Hunter Hills Georgia, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Urban League Neighborhood Information Data Sheet on Hunter Hills, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Neighborhood Street Map, circa 1968

Map of Area from a neighborhood information data sheet, circa 1950

Questionnaire, January 29, 1965

Household Questionnaire, January 29, 1965

Atlanta Urban League Data Sheet of Edgewood Georgia, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Urban League Neighborhood Information Data Sheet on Edgewood, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Urban League Data Sheet of Bush Mountain (Oakland City), Georgia, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Urban League Neighborhood Information Data Sheet on Oakland City, June 20, 1952

Neighborhood Profile: Mechanicsville, April 1967

Mechanicsville Neighborhood Profile, April 1967

Newspaper Clippings on the Community Relations Commission, 1967

"The New Commission," April 24, 1967

Atlanta Urban League Data Sheet: College Park, Georgia, June 20, 1952

Atlanta Urban League Neighborhood Data Sheet on College Park, June 20, 1952

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