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"Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas--they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience"--

American poetry --- 2000-2099 --- Atlanta (Ga.) --- Georgia

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Startled by rapid social changes at the turn of the twentieth century, citizens of Atlanta wrestled with fears about the future of race relations, the shape of gender roles, the impact of social class, and the meaning of regional identity in a New South. Gavin James Campbell demonstrates how these anxieties were played out in Atlanta's popular musical entertainment. Examining the period from 1890 to 1925, Campbell focuses on three popular musical institutions: the New York Metropolitan Opera (which visited Atlanta each year), the Colored Music Festival, and the Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Conve

Music --- History and criticism. --- Atlanta (Ga.) --- History. --- City of Atlanta (Ga.)

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"By relying on the educational models of Wilberforce University and Morehouse College, this study gathered historical artifacts that provide critical responses to the following research questions: What were the similarities and differences between the social, historical, political and cultural forces that led to the founding of the colleges? What were the similar and different motivations and interests of the founding leaders? What were the similar and different effects of these founding leaders on their institutions in their time period? What similar and different supports did these institutions receive from their religious organizations? What can we learn from the impact of these institutions on Black higher education over the last 150 years? The project sets out to answers the aforementioned research questions"--

Payne, Daniel Alexander, --- Wilberforce University --- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) --- History. --- History.

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"This book describes how the early NAACP successfully organized a voting bloc in 1920s Atlanta powerful enough to force the city to build its first publicly funded Black high school"--Provided by publisher.

Protest movements --- African Americans --- African American schools --- Social movements --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Schools, African American --- Schools --- History --- Politics and government --- Civil rights --- Education --- Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) --- Booker T. Washington Public High School (Atlanta, Ga.) --- Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.) --- Atlanta (Ga.) --- City of Atlanta (Ga.) --- Race relations --- Segregation in education --- School segregation --- Discrimination in education --- Race relations in school management --- School integration --- Segregation --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --- NAACP (Organization) --- N.A.A.C.P. (Organization) --- Black people

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This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality. As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century. --- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. --- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations. --- Civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography. --- Parsons, Sara Mitchell, 1912-. --- Women civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography. --- Women, White -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography. --- Women civil rights workers --- Civil rights workers --- Women, White --- African Americans --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- White women --- Civil rights activists --- Race relations reformers --- Social reformers --- Women social reformers --- History --- Civil rights --- Parsons, Sara Mitchell, --- Atlanta (Ga.) --- Race relations. --- Politics and government --- City of Atlanta (Ga.)