Tag: history
Melissa Fay Greene searched for truth with her book, The Temple Bombing
"Are you a Jew?" the man demanded of Melissa Fay Greene. "Yeah," the Atlanta author responded, immediately wishing she hadn't. If only she could have read his mind, could have seen the question coming, could have disguised her identity, she might have come closer to solving the crime, she thought.
Good talk is the mainstay at Manuel’s
When Manuel Maloof bought Harry’s Delicatessen at 602 N. Highland in 1956, DeKalb County was dry. Manuel’s fortuitous location just across the county line brought Emory University’s thirsty knowledge-seekers and thus established the intellectual branch of a most eclectic clientele.
Struggle of the ERA
From 1973, this sometimes off-base article details the legislature’s run-in with the infamous Phyllis Schlafly and the fight to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in Georgia, something the state (and country) has yet to do.
Maid in Atlanta: Tara is behind her. But it’s a long road to where she wants to go.
Originally published in 1971, this story by Anne Rivers Siddons looks at the changing lives of black housekeepers in the South.
