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"Atlanta's Petticoated Sherlock Holmes" - that's how the newspaper's described Hattie Barnett, the city's first licensed female detective. With very little information to be found, I took the mentions of Hattie and pieced together a small snapshot of her life here in Atlanta.
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World War I was the first conflict where American women were allowed to enlist in the armed forces and 100K men and women from around the State of Georgia contributed to the war effort. This week, I'm talking about the Atlanta women and their roles in WWI. From those who sewed in their homes to those that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
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This week, we're talking about the Georgia State Lottery. If you ask Google when it began, it will tell you 1991...but the truth is that is formed in 1866, and the story is rife with drama.
 
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Westside Park is the largest greenspace in the city, at 280 acres, with a 350-foot reservoir that holds 2.4 billion gallons of emergency water reserves. As Atlanta celebrates this new park, I think it’s incredibly valuable to understand the history of the land and what led to it becoming what it is today. One part is the story of a working class Black community from the turn of the 20th century that was displaced by urban renewal and the other, the story of one of Atlanta's numerous stone quarries and the prison labor that was sent to mine it.
 
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This week I am covering the history of an Atlanta icon - the Fox Theater! From its beginning as a mosque, to opening as a premiere movie theater, to its place as the catalyst of the city’s historic preservation movement.
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This week’s mini episode is about the history of Georgia’s white-only primary. White primaries were primary elections held in the South in which only white voters could participate and they were established by the Democratic Party and/or state legislatures in South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Georgia. Atlanta first established their white primary in 1892, and by 1900 almost every city in the state had followed their lead.
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In 1881, not even two decades out of slavery, a group of Atlanta's African American washerwomen started the "Washing Society" and launched the fight for higher wages, respect and acknowledgement of Black women's important role in the New South economy. One of best lesser-known 'herstories' of the city.
Further Reading: To Joy My Freedom
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This week’s mini episode is about bicycle messengers, a topic that came from Atlanta Courier Collective. From the first messenger company in 1894, through the stories of strikes, arrests and speed records. 
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This week I am sharing my interview with Clayton Trutor, author of "Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta - And How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports", which is available on February 1st. We talked about why the South lacked professional sports teams, who and what changed that, the origin stories of the Braves, Hawks, Falcons, Flames and Chiefs and the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and Omni Complex.
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Ida Elliott was a young working class girl from Bellwood, today the area along Marietta Street, from 8th North Avenues. Mule-drawn trolleys came to the area in 1882, electric streetcars in 1894 and was annexed into Atlanta in 1897. 
In 1896, a sensational news story landed the neighborhood on the front page of the local papers. Since so much of our history is always about the successful, the rich, the prominent, and it’s not often that we know about the lives of the poor, or working class, or just regular everyday people from Atlanta’s past. 
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