Summerhill

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Featured Project

Marni Davis

“A chronological history of Georgia Avenue, its decline, and its current gentrification, told through maps, photographs, interviews, and text.”

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“Explore Clark Atlanta University’s Campus.” Google Arts & Culture, artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-clark-atlanta-university-39-s-campus-clark-atlanta-university/SQVhJKoQJMcz0Q?hl=en.
Virtual tour of Clark Atlanta, including images of the original campus buildings located in Brownsville, now South Atlanta.

Monographs

Articles & Chapters

Baker, S. Zebulon. 2006. “Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered.” Southern Spaces. March 21, 2006. https://southernspaces.org/2006/whatwuzit-1996-atlanta-summer-olympics-reconsidered/.
GRADY-WILLIS, Winston A. “Black Power in the South : Urban Protest and Neighborhood Activism in Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1969.” Présence Africaine, no. 161/162 (2000): 328–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24352105.
Keenan, Sean Richard . “Georgia State Researcher Takes Deep Dive into Summerhill’s Fascinating, Turbulent History.” Curbed Atlanta, 27 June 2019, atlanta.curbed.com/2019/6/27/18761209/gsu-historian-deep-dive-georgia-avenue-summerhill.
Newman, Harvey K. “Neighborhood Impacts of Atlanta’s Olympic Games.” Community Development Journal 34, no. 2 (1999): 151–59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44257467.
Prescott, Virginia. “Unpacking the Hidden History of Summerhill.” Georgia Public Broadcasting, 30 July 2019, www.gpb.org/news/2019/07/30/unpacking-the-hidden-history-of-summerhill. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
Suggs, Donnell. “Two Sides of Summerhill: Historic Summerhill Has Gone through Some Changes, Not All Good.” The Atlanta Voice, 7 May 2021, theatlantavoice.com/two-sides-of-summerhill/. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
Quesenberry, Preston. 1996. “The Disposable Olympics Meets the City of Hype – Southern Changes.” Emory.edu 18 (2): 3–14. https://southernchanges.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/sc18-2_001/sc18-2_002/#gsc.tab=0.

Organizations