About South

“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.”

The Paradise Garden of Rev. Howard Finster: Summerville, GA and its legacy.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Woodruff Library, Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia.

I wanted to interview a person that has marched during the movement and also had the opportunity to see a African American president get…

The link behind the stories that spoke to the truth of my project.

I was privileged to meet with Emory professor Dr. Donna Troka on Wednesday night, and we spoke at length about the homeless pet population…

The Old ATL Prison Farm; As seen in 1930s AJC photos, 1970s correspondence by Mary N. Long & photos of its current state of abandonment.

Comparing the Women labor force with the “Civil Rights” Movement

Link to Digital Home: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/lane/id/8576/rec/11

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…

I chose the two pictures below for my assignment. I found the first photograph on the GSU Collections website. I visited the Collections…