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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“The Right Kind of Neighbors”: Race and the Origins of Avondale Estates
This is second in a series of posts about the history of Avondale Estates, Georgia. In my last post I mentioned that racism and white supremacy were baked into Avondale Estates’ identity at its origin. This was both a function of the founder and his times. Avondale Estates was founded in the mid 1920s by… Continue reading “The Right Kind of Neighbors”: Race and the Origins of Avondale Estates
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