Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts
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 book of edited abstracts of the interviews. Interview discussions deal primarily with the concerns of residents as the Dome was being built, including increased crime rates, decreasing property values, excessive traffic in the neighborhood, and how the neighborhood's character could change as a result. Some interviewees also talk about their family history, their experiences with race relations in the South, and other life experiences.
Dates
- 1988-1989
Creator
- Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center. The recordings listed are licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC By-NC license, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Administrative/Biographical History
Plans for the construction of the Domed Stadium Project, which later became the Georgia Dome, were approved by the Atlanta City Council in 1989. The neighborhood most affected by the project was Vine City, located just west of downtown Atlanta. As the project worked its way through the final phases of approval, students from the Booker T. Washington High School Center for the Humanities, under the direction of two teachers, Ms. Gwen Cheatham and Ms. Katie Lindquist, interviewed Vine City residents most affected by the pending construction. The students interviewed fourteen individuals, and ultimately created a series of oral histories that documented the changing lives of Vine City residents. The project was patterned after the work of the “Foxfire” program developed in Rabun County, Georgia.
Extent
1.167 linear ft. (one half document case and 17 oral history recordings)
Language
English
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Audio recordings were made on 60 and 90 minute audio casettes. Patrons who want access to the audio must use the linked digital copies available at http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17222coll9.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 1989
Description Control
Collection re-processed in 2016.
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- African Americans -- History
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) -- History -- 20th century
- Boxill, Nancy A.
- Cheatham, Gwen
- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Communication in city planning
- Creecy, Howard, Jr.
- Economic development -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Georgia -- Race relations
- Georgia Dome (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Lindquist, Katie
- Moody, Maggie
- Neighborhoods -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Oral histories
- Robinson, John T.
- Scott, Jeffrey
- Segregation -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Tourism and city planning -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Urban renewal -- Georgia -- Atlanta
- Vine City (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Watkins, Cynthia
- Williams, Clarence
- Title
- Vine City/Domed Stadium oral history recordings and transcripts
- Author
- Leah Lefkowitz.
- Date
- October 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository