This data set is documenting the number of prisoners that were cataloged from the years 1908 to 1922. This data includes numbers from prisons across the country; therefore, it is not solely looking at Atlanta, Georgia. The original chart that the data was derived from broke down the prisoners by sex and then further broke […]
In much of my research so far, I have focused on racial tension and hate groups in Atlanta. From this research, I have gained a few questions regarding these features in Atlanta’s history. How many hate crimes or lynchings were committed by members of hate groups? How do murders of Black people versus white people […]
Atlanta, Georgia first saw citizens in the 1850s as the population went from 0 to 2,572.1 Atlanta’s population steadily grew for over a century, surpassing Savannah’s total population in the 1880s. Savannah is Georgia’s oldest city, and its population had been growing since the 1800s; however, in just 40 years of its establishment, Atlanta was […]
