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This paper ticket granted admission to a seat on the north side of Sanford Stadium at the Yale vs. UGA game on Saturday October 12, 1929.

This is a letter written to Dr. King from William H. Borders, a minister at Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church during the civil rights movement. He discusses his goals to desegregate transportation systems in the city; photographed are a group of…

Report from U.S. Census Bureau showing data on the population growth of Atlanta after the Civil War, decades: 1870 to 1910

The atmosphere surrounding the first African American students entering a predominately white school.

Photograph by George Bernard in Atlanta during Civil War, 1864. Supply depot exploded by Union forces under General William Sherman after capture of Atlanta. One of thousands destroyed by Union army during the September 1864 capture, burning, and…

A special military order by General William T. Sherman that allotted about 400,000 acres of land along the Georgia Coast to newly freed blacks in the south.

Article on people who paved the way for integration at Georgia State University

This map details how professors patrolled the grounds around Charlayne Hunter's Myers Hall dormitory during the first days of integration -- implying the importance of her enrollment to the faculty of the University. Also included is a list of…

This is a sermon that Whitefield gave on the night of New Year's Eve.

Atlanta in 1907, Peach Tree Street and surrounding buildings. The large buildings of the inner city tangibly symbolize Atlanta's population and economic development after the Civil War.