Author : Vivian Price
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1893619893
An illustrated history of DeKalb County, Georgia, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author : Elizabeth S. Howard
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Law
ISBN :
Howard was a doer as well as a dreamer. He achieved many great things during his lifetime including debating with Clarence Darrow, nominated for president of the United States, and attempted to impeach President Grover Cleveland.
Author : Mary Ann Harris Gay
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 1892
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Herman Mason
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738500348
DeKalb County, Georgia, is much more than just another of the suburban areas around the city of Atlanta. African Americans have long lived, worked, played, and worshiped in the area. In African-American Life in DeKalb County: 1823-1970, Herman "Skip" Mason Jr., author, professor, and historian, has compiled a lovingly crafted look at the county's rich African-American heritage. With images from the Georgia Department of Archives and History, the DeKalb Historical Society, and his own extensive archives, Mason couples fascinating images with illuminating text to create a unique look at the area and its people. Within these pages, discover little-known facts about the county's past residents, including Bukumbo, the young girl who was brought from Africa to Decatur to serve as a nurse, who quickly became a beloved member of the family and died only a short while later. Learn about the great impact that the Clark and Oliver families had on Decatur, and view famous sections and landmarks of the county, including Lithonia, Ellenwood, Stone Mountain, Doraville, Tucker, Chamblee, Clarkston, Lynwood Park, Scottdale, and South DeKalb.
Author : Ron Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1625851359
After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many consider flappers and gangsters the iconic images of the era, in reality, it was marked with temperance zealotry, blind tigers and white lightning. Georgia's protracted and intense battle changed the industrial and social landscapes of its capital city and unleashed a flood of illegal liquor that continually flowed in the wettest city in the South. Moonshine was the toast of the town from mill houses to the state capitol. The state eventually repealed prohibition, but the social, moral and legal repercussions still linger seventy years later. Join authors Ron Smith and Mary O. Boyle as they recount the colorful history of Atlanta's struggle to freely enjoy a drink.
Author : Nancy M. Beasley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2013-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1476600805
This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Although arrests were made in nearby counties, not one person was prosecuted for aiding a fugitive slave in DeKalb County, Illinois. First, the area Congregationalist, Universalist, Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist churches all had compelling antislavery beliefs. Church members, county elected officials, and the Underground Railroad conductors and stationmasters were all one and the same. Additionally, DeKalb County had the highest concentration of subscriptions to the Chicago-based Western Citizen antislavery newspaper. It was an accepted local activity to help escaped slaves. A biographical dictionary includes evidence and personal information for more than 600 men and women, and their families, who defied the prevailing Fugitive Slave Law, and helped the anti-slavery movement in this one Northern Illinois County. Unique photographs and illustrations are included along with notes, bibliography and index.
Author : Mark Pifer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,99 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1439671982
Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the Creeks to the rough-and-ready pioneer days, the area was rich in history long before it was called Atlanta. Author Mark Pifer unfolds a complex saga, including forgotten details from the struggles of African Americans and new immigrants, while noting modern locations bursting with tales that predate the City in the Forest's rise amid the treetops.
Author : David B. Freeman
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780865545472
Referred to by some as The Eighth Wonder of the World, Stone Mountain, located 16 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world. Freeman, a freelance historian, narrates the development of the mountain from the days that it served as a Native American domain, through the carving of an historic Confederate monument, to its present status as a tourist attraction and recreational area. Enhanced with bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Will T. Hale
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789353601904
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Lewis M. Gross
Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 1907
Category : De Kalb County (Ill.)
ISBN :
