Here is a photograph of two black, female students being escorted by an unmarked police car on their first day of school at Joseph E. Brown High School in Atlanta, GA on August 30, 1961.
Drawn in 1864 by Union mapmaker, Robert Knox Sweden, this map shows the fortified Confederate perimeter of around Atlanta to oppose Sherman's 1864 Invasion.
It is a 1938 Map of the City of Atlanta. The colors are grades for neighborhoods and identify the main race in the region. In this map, the red region is largely African American settlements.
This resource describes Atlanta before the construction of the Beltline was even considered. It shows pictures of the original railroads and describes their significance to the growth of the city.
Seen here is a group of students at the Booker T. Washington High School in the 1950s. The results of a writing contest is being announced by one of the teachers outside of the school building.
Seen here is a photograph of one of the first permanent school buildings that Boys' High School had during its height in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Sadly, this building eventually burned down in 1924.