The Archive
57 Stories
Founding a Black-Owned Hospital; A Legacy of Education; Decades of Nursing
James Brown Taught Me to Be Black and Proud
The Black Seniors Who Remember Atlanta Before the Stadiums
I Helped Bring Health Care to My Hometown in Rural Florida
My Grandma Relaxed My Hair When I Was 7
My Father Built Atlanta’s First Black History Museum. Now I Lead It.
My Mother Helped Integrate Decatur’s Schools. I Was Among the First Students.
A Customer Told Me She Picked Cotton. I Saw My Story, Too.
My Father Sued the Klan into Bankruptcy. Iām in Congress Because of Him.
My Parents Taught Me That Voting Wasn’t Optional
I Hope My Great-Great-Grandchildren See the Gary I Knew
We Integrated an All-White School. Then We Were Evicted.
We Used to Watch All the Neighbors’ Kids
I Never Tried to Stop Being Southern
I Wish My Generation Had Our Own ‘A Different World’
I Can’t Remember a Time I Wasn’t Proud to Be Black
The Women Who Raised Me Never Taught Me to Fear White People
I Watched Atlanta Police Kill an Unarmed Black Man in 1966. It Changed My Life.
There Are Only Two Black Homesteading Communities in America. Mine Is One of Them.
