“I think it’s an innovative approach to the museum working outside its walls,” said the Atlanta History Center president and CEO.
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Atlanta History Center to debut film about Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument
The Atlanta History Center is premiering its first-ever documentary film looking at the history of the Confederate monument carved on Stone Mountain.
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After Confederate controversy, Rome experiments with naming diverse historic landmarks
Once upon a time, the Northwest Georgia city of Rome was ahead of most of the state on historic preservation programs. Now in the wake of a Confederate monument controversy, the city is experimenting with modern methods of diversity in preservation that might once again be a path for other towns to follow.
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Despite Confederate monument removals, debate over effigies in Georgia still red-hot
Georgia has exorcised some of its Confederate ghosts in recent years, although many still haunt the state’s public spaces, casting shadows in communities that have largely matured since the horrors of the Civil War.
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Look to South Africa for guidance in reviewing Atlanta’s Confederate icons, panelist suggests
Regina Brewer went large in recommending Atlanta consider the approach South Africa took as it determined the fate of monuments to white minority rule. Brewer said the approach could inform the city’s panel that met the first time Wednesday on its mission to review Confederate icons in the city.
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Forget the symbols of the Confederacy; instead let’s preserve our African-American heritage
It makes no sense.
As the nation and our region ponder whether to erase Confederate history by removing monuments and renaming streets, we are letting our precious landmarks of African-American history crumble to dust.
Where is the passion and dedication to save the pillars of U.S. black history? Let’s begin with Gaines Hall, built in 1869 and the second oldest building in the city of Atlanta, and the place where W.E.B. DuBois wrote the mind-changing book: “The Souls of Black Folks.”
