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Community Stories: Tracing Jim Crow’s Impact in Savannah’s Park System

Posted: May 02, 2023

Savannah maintained separate and unequal public park systems for black and white people from the end of the Civil War until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Black Savannahians were barred by custom from entering the largest and finest parks due to Jim…

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Community Stories: Creating a Funeral Program Collection

Posted: June 28, 2021

It all began with a one-sided friendly competitive thought: If Augusta could do it, so could Atlanta. This immediately came to mind after reading an article in Georgia Library Quarterly written in 2009 by Dottie Demarest, then the genealogy and local…

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Georgia Exhibits Student Curator: Sidonia Serafini

Posted: May 05, 2021

Mutiny on behalf of female prisoners, a hungry Georgia resident jailed for stealing a chicken, a woman flogged for refusing sexual advances. These are some of the stories that Sidonia Serafini, a doctoral student in English at the University of…

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Georgia Exhibits Student Curator: Davis Winkie

Posted: May 05, 2021

For so long, Davis Winkie just didn’t know. He grew up in Forsyth County, but its ugly, racist past wasn’t the kind of thing you talked about around the kitchen table. He attended Forsyth County schools, but the history books were void. It…

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Community Stories: Historic Newspapers Help Document Georgia Photographers

Posted: September 25, 2020

My interest in Georgia photographers and visiting photographers who worked in Georgia, as well as their associates, began in the late 1970s. Throughout my career as an archivist and librarian I built upon this interest when time allowed. When I…