Tag: New South
Atlanta Must Reads for the Week: Little Five Points’s weirdness, Georgia’s Second Chance courts, and the New South’s repackaging of the Old South
The best stories each week about Atlanta, from Atlanta-based writers, and beyond.
Flashback: The 1895 Cotton States Exposition and the Negro Building
The Negro Building was the first designated space, since Emancipation, for the showcase of African-American achievement in a white-dominated setting. Without it, the Exposition committee could have not received federal backing, and those funds appropriated from Congress, are what helped make the fair an international success.
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