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Friday Apr 30, 2021
Fuller-Freedom House (Interview w/ Alicia Guzman)
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
This week, I got to speak with Alicia Guzman, who worked on the research and nomination of Fuller-Freedom House, which the City of Atlanta began the historic designation of in February. Who was Fuller? What did he do? What is a Freedom House? We’re covering all those questions and more!
https://www.atlcitydesign.com/blog/2021/3/15/fuller-freedom-house-designated-as-historic-landmark
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Friday Apr 23, 2021
Zoo Atlanta
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Friday Apr 23, 2021
Zoo Atlanta is part of the lived experience of so many Atlantans, but I’m not sure that everyone knows how it started. From a small collection of local animals when the park was formed, to the defunct circus in 1889, to a Candler boost in 1935. We’re going to talk about the famous animals, the controversies, the decline and then later re-emergence of the zoo.
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Friday Apr 16, 2021
Georgia Flag
Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
*CORRECTION: Judge Orinda Evans is white woman. I mistakenly identified her as Black in this episode.*
This week, we’re talking about the history Georgia’s state flag, from the beginning of the colony through the present. Our state did not have an official state flag until 1879, and the design was taken from the first flag of the Confederate States of America (the “Stars and Bars”). The Battle Flag (“St. Andrew’s Cross”) was added in 1956, in retaliation of federal orders to desegregate schools.
When Roy Barnes successfully changed the state flag in 2001, it cost him re-election, and Sonny Perdue did a little ‘bait and switch’ that outraged flag supporters.
Roy Barnes on Marietta Stories
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Friday Apr 09, 2021
Christmas Card Lady
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Did you know that throughout the 1950s, Atlanta had a Christmas Card Lady? Laura Watson recycled hundreds of thousands of used holiday cards, turning them into new ones to send to hospitals, missionaries and 'shut-ins'. This week's mini episode is about Watson and her labor of love.
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
Residential Bombings
Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
This week, we’re talking about the period just before Atlanta’s “white flight”. Three decades of incessant terror, violence and destruction against the Black families that purchased or rented homes in what were considered “white neighborhoods''.
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