Given the past reactions to this blog, it may be an act of folly to take it up again but those of you who were interested in my work in 2020 and 2021 may be interested in what I am discovering now. The initial foray into local history has blossomed into a full-blown book project… Continue reading 1930 and the “Black side of town” revisited
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DeKalb County’s Houseworth family: Three generations of Black history
Last summer I wrote about the “Black Side of Town” in Avondale, inspired by Carl Houseworth, an African American laborer who lived in Avondale in the 1930s-1950s, and for whom the “Carl’s Corner” gateway is named. As I wrote before, Carl was part of an extended family of Houseworths who lived in and around Ingleside… Continue reading DeKalb County’s Houseworth family: Three generations of Black history
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