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Eleanor Hand Peoplestown neighborhood essay and recordings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS852f
Scope and Content

This collection contains an essay written by Eleanor Hand entitled "A Re-Viewing of Peoplestown" and taped interviews with Peoplestown residents Henry Phipps, Olivia Parks, and Grace Barksdale. In the essay Hand presents a history of Peoplestown's geographical development in relation to the railroad tracks, housing trends, racial prejudice against its residents, the Civil Rights Movement, and her hope for the future of the neighborhood.

Dates: 1994, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center

Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS611
Scope and Content The collection consists of sixteen audio cassette tape recordings of interviews conducted by students from Booker T. Washington High School. Interviewees include residents of the Vine City neighborhood who would be affected by the Georgia Dome construction, Fulton County Commissioner Nancy Boxill, John T. Robinson II (the assistant to County Commissioner Michael Lomax), and Clarence Williams (the international representative from United Automobile Workers). The collection also includes a...
Dates: 1988-1989
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center

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Cheatham, Gwen 1
Creecy, Howard, Jr. 1
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