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This week about nursing - the earliest history of the profession, the city’s first nursing programs and schools, how each World War impacted it, how the state regulated the profession and talk about some of the men and women who made history as nurses. 
 
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Today marks the 117th anniversary of the Atlanta Race Massacre, so I am replaying my episode from last year with Ann Hill-Bond. I did an Episode 19 WAY back in the beginning of this journey that is titled 1906 Race Riot, but this episode with Ann was so important because we discussed her efforts to change the name, we included the stories of Brownsville and East Point and really got into the details about the financial impact and the role of the Black press. So without further ado, hope you enjoy our conversation:
Gammon Street Walking Tour
Equitable Dinners
1906 Race Massacre Symposium
WABE Documentary
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This week we are covering the Atlanta Art Association, the men and women who were members, the events they hosted, the work they did to bring a permanent museum to Atlanta and the 1962 plane crash that rocked Atlanta’s art community to the bone.
Archive Atlanta 5 Year Anniversary Party!
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This week, we’re talking about Atlanta’s small, but fascinating German community - who they were, when they arrived and how they left their culture and legacies around the city. In 1890, the entire state of Georgia had only 1.78% of residents with foreign patronage and Atlanta’s immigration story is really one that occurs post-1965 Immigration Act, but all that being said, there were small racial and ethnic communities from the founding of Atlanta in the 1840s.
The very first Germans in Atlanta also happened to be the very  first Jewish residents. Lutheran Germans also made up the majority of Atlanta's community. They were business owners, civic leaders and weathered intense scrutiny during both world wars and the intense anti-German sentiment. 
Archive Atlanta 5 Year Anniversary Party!
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If you’ve been listening for a while, you know my love for any and all buildings designed by architect A. Ten Eyck Brown. Brown was prolific in Atlanta, and there are many things he designed - so this week, we’re going to talk about his life, how he got to Atlanta, what he designed here, and what is still left today.
Archive Atlanta 5 Year Anniversary Party!
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This week, we’re talking about the “Atlanta Six” (Anne Burlak, Mary Dalton, Gilmer Brady aka Herbert Newton, Henry Storey, MH Powers and Joe Carr) and Angelo Herndon. These are stories about communism, specifically in the United States, how it spread during the Great Depression, why it became popular with Southern Black Americans, how that story ties into Atlanta history and how leaders in Atlanta attempted to crush the movement and it’s activists in any way possible, including using an archaic insurrection law.
"Let Me Live"
Communist Pamphlet
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This week, I am sharing an interview I did last week with Hannah Palmer, talking about everything she does in Atlanta, from her book Flight Path to the recent Ghost Pools exhibit, presented by Flux Projects. I learned a lot about the history of public swimming places, spring-fed pools, the switch to what we think of today as a swimming pool and how these public spaces were battlegrounds in the Civil Rights Movement.
Ghost Pools
Atlanta Creek League
Finding the Flint
Flight Path
Hannah's Other Writing
 
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This week, I'm talking to Patrick Sullivan about Atlanta's soccer history. We cover the sports development, the first Scottish immigrants, and later Welsh and Irish that brought the game to Atlanta. Where and when the first matches were played. The rise and fall of an organized league, the arrival of the Atlanta Chiefs and all the way through our MLS team today, Atlanta United. My own personal soccer love bias aside, this was such an interesting story and you do not want to miss it.
psullivan@newsouthassoc.com
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This week, we’re talking about Candler Warehouse, today, The MET. A giant concrete warehouse didn’t really call to my history-nerd heart, but once I started digging into the history, I was hooked - it’s economic instability, drama, the Candlers, world wars, fires and so much more!
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This week, we are talking about early photographers in Atlanta. Starting with an early history of the technology, then the photographers, their lives, their studios and what, if anything, is left today.
https://georgia-photographers.com/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hidden_Treasures/18hjGwAACAAJ?hl=en
 
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