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Reflection on HBCU Leadership Project and This Semester
When I chose my project title — HBCU Leadership within the context of folklore — I did not know what I would find or where I would end up…
Lakeem Garretson
Feb 5, 2015
Flannery O’Connor and the South. Looking Back on a Journey Through Space and Literature.
Flannery O’Connor and the South. Looking Back on a Journey Through Space and Literature.
“Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
Annamaria Giacovaccia
Feb 5, 2015
Weird South: Inside the Garden of ‘Outsider-Art’
Weird South: Inside the Garden of ‘Outsider-Art’
The Paradise Garden of Rev. Howard Finster: Summerville, GA and its legacy.
Lauren King
Feb 5, 2015
Documenting the South: The Final Post
Documenting the South: The Final Post
When I first signed up for the course “Documenting the U.S South,” I didn’t know what the class would consist of; all I knew is that I…
Brandy Jones
Feb 5, 2015
Weird South: Interview
Weird South: Interview
Mary Lambert, 25+ Georgia resident, New York-native. Mentions treatment of Northerners and LGBTs by majority (in the 60's-80's back home in…
Lauren King
Feb 5, 2015
I am very glad that the university offered this course. I must admit that I had a very specific…
But the fact that there was a presentation component to the project allowed me to think more critically about how I wanted to structure…
Tracie Gary
Dec 15, 2014
Southern Reflections
Southern Reflections
The first day of class Dr. Caisson asked us all to close our eyes and anonymously answer a few questions. First she asked who in the class…
Jane Allison Gunn
Dec 15, 2014
Ryan Vizzions: An Interview with Atlanta’s Best Fine Art Photographer of 2014
Ryan Vizzions: An Interview with Atlanta’s Best Fine Art Photographer of 2014
In my study of Southern photography and the element of surrealism that is present, I have largely focused on the work of New Orleans artist…
Samuel Alexander
Nov 20, 2014
National Center for Civil & Human Rights: Center for Civil Rights
National Center for Civil & Human Rights: Center for Civil Rights
So I spent my Sunday outside of the church and partaking in a expensive viewing of the new Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta, GA. My intention…
Brandy Jones
Nov 20, 2014
Flannery O’Connor’s Archive at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL…
Flannery O’Connor’s Archive at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL…
Woodruff Library, Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia.
Annamaria Giacovaccia
Nov 20, 2014
Reflecting On Folklore Paper by Hurston
When I visited the Collections floor at school last week, I had the privilege of looking at a paper on Folklore by Zora Neale Hurston…
Lakeem Garretson
Nov 20, 2014
Interview with a Civil Rights Protester
Interview with a Civil Rights Protester
I wanted to interview a person that has marched during the movement and also had the opportunity to see a African American president get…
Brandy Jones
Nov 20, 2014
Interview with an Atlanta native
1. Why do you think race matters?
Tracie Gary
Nov 20, 2014
Archival Assignment : Annotations
Archival Assignment : Annotations
The link behind the stories that spoke to the truth of my project.
Brandy Jones
Nov 20, 2014
Interview with Donna Troka
Interview with Donna Troka
I was privileged to meet with Emory professor Dr. Donna Troka on Wednesday night, and we spoke at length about the homeless pet population…
Jane Allison Gunn
Nov 20, 2014
Weird South: Archive Materials on the Old Atlanta Prison Farm
Weird South: Archive Materials on the Old Atlanta Prison Farm
The Old ATL Prison Farm; As seen in 1930s AJC photos, 1970s correspondence by Mary N. Long & photos of its current state of abandonment.
Lauren King
Nov 15, 2014
Archive Assignment
Archive Assignment
Comparing the Women labor force with the “Civil Rights” Movement
Brandy Jones
Nov 15, 2014
Georgia State University Archives: Ku Klux Klan and Stetson Kennedy
Georgia State University Archives: Ku Klux Klan and Stetson Kennedy
Link to Digital Home: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/lane/id/8576/rec/11
Samuel Alexander
Nov 15, 2014
The photo is dated November 29, 1972. I found it in the AJC digital collections archives. It…
The photo is dated November 29, 1972. I found it in the AJC digital collections archives. It…
I chose a document in the Steteson Kennedy Collection dated September 21, 1978 in which he was “writing” a letter to Dr. Solon Kimball in…
Tracie Gary
Nov 15, 2014
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
ARCHIVES COLLECTION
I chose the two pictures below for my assignment. I found the first photograph on the GSU Collections website. I visited the Collections…
Lakeem Garretson
Nov 15, 2014
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