Author: Atlanta Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Atlanta in 1890
Author: Atlanta Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Atlanta in 1890
Author: Atlanta Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Atlanta, 1847-1890
Author: James Michael Russell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807114131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807114131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Atlanta City Directory for 1890
Author: Boyds Atlanta City Directory
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598626073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598626073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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Hope and Danger in the New South City
Author: Georgina Hickey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women--black and white--emerged as a visible new component of the city's population. As maids and cooks, secretaries and factory workers, these women served the "better classes" in their homes and businesses. They were enthusiastic patrons of the city's new commercial amusements and the mothers of Atlanta's burgeoning working classes. In response to women's growing public presence, as Georgina Hickey reveals, Atlanta's boosters, politicians, and reformers created a set of images that attempted to define the lives and contributions of working women. Through these images, city residents expressed ambivalence toward Atlanta's growth, which, although welcome, also threatened the established racial and gender hierarchies of the city. Using period newspapers, municipal documents, government investigations, organizational records, oral histories, and photographic evidence, Hope and Danger in the New South City relates the experience of working-class women across lines of race--as sources of labor, community members, activists, pleasure seekers, and consumers of social services--to the process of urban development.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women--black and white--emerged as a visible new component of the city's population. As maids and cooks, secretaries and factory workers, these women served the "better classes" in their homes and businesses. They were enthusiastic patrons of the city's new commercial amusements and the mothers of Atlanta's burgeoning working classes. In response to women's growing public presence, as Georgina Hickey reveals, Atlanta's boosters, politicians, and reformers created a set of images that attempted to define the lives and contributions of working women. Through these images, city residents expressed ambivalence toward Atlanta's growth, which, although welcome, also threatened the established racial and gender hierarchies of the city. Using period newspapers, municipal documents, government investigations, organizational records, oral histories, and photographic evidence, Hope and Danger in the New South City relates the experience of working-class women across lines of race--as sources of labor, community members, activists, pleasure seekers, and consumers of social services--to the process of urban development.
Sister of Old Atlanta, 1890's-1919
Author: Jacquelyn Spratlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895
Author: Theda Perdue
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. Theda Perdue uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of color who participated. White organizers had to demonstrate that the South had solved its race problem in order to attract business and capital. As a result, the exposition became a venue for a performance of race that formalized the segregation of African Americans, the banishment of Native Americans, and the incorporation of other people of color into the region's racial hierarchy. White supremacy may have been the organizing principle, but exposition organizers gave unprecedented voice to minorities. African Americans used the Negro Building to display their accomplishments, to feature prominent black intellectuals, and to assemble congresses of professionals, tradesmen, and religious bodies. American Indians became more than sideshow attractions when newspapers published accounts of the difficulties they faced. And performers of ethnographic villages on the midway pursued various agendas, including subverting Chinese exclusion and protesting violations of contracts. Close examination reveals that the Cotton States Exposition was as much about challenges to white supremacy as about its triumph.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. Theda Perdue uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of color who participated. White organizers had to demonstrate that the South had solved its race problem in order to attract business and capital. As a result, the exposition became a venue for a performance of race that formalized the segregation of African Americans, the banishment of Native Americans, and the incorporation of other people of color into the region's racial hierarchy. White supremacy may have been the organizing principle, but exposition organizers gave unprecedented voice to minorities. African Americans used the Negro Building to display their accomplishments, to feature prominent black intellectuals, and to assemble congresses of professionals, tradesmen, and religious bodies. American Indians became more than sideshow attractions when newspapers published accounts of the difficulties they faced. And performers of ethnographic villages on the midway pursued various agendas, including subverting Chinese exclusion and protesting violations of contracts. Close examination reveals that the Cotton States Exposition was as much about challenges to white supremacy as about its triumph.
Pioneer Citizens' History of Atlanta, 1833-1902
Author: Pioneer citizens' society. Atlanta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Elites and Municipal Politics and Government in Atlanta, 1847 to 1890
Author: James Michael Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Race Relations in Atlanta, from 1877 Through 1890, as Seen in a Critical Analysis of the Atlanta City County Proceedings and Other Related Works
Author: Bettye Collier-Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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