The Great Migration was the relocation of the United States’ Black population out of Southern cities and primarily toward the North. This migration was commonly in response to the Jim Crow laws and social structure that was present in the South, and the North was viewed as a place with better opportunities. Whether the North […]
Author: admin
In the above map, you can see where I grew up and where I moved to for college. Elberton is a small town that is nicknamed the Granite Capital of the World. I visited Cleveland, Georgia often as a child, and it is 20 minutes away from Dahlonega. I was familiar with the area, and […]
I was curious about how the Atlanta prison population compared to the general population in the early 1900s because of the increase in hate groups and the reviving of the Ku Klux Klan. I pulled data from a 1910 and 1920 report of the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia as well as US Census […]
The above graph depicts the change in population over time for both Atlanta, Georgia as well as Savannah, Georgia. Savannah, Georgia is the oldest city in Georgia; however, as can be clearly seen in the graph, Atlanta overtook Savannah in population size in a matter of 40 years. This graph was created from a data […]
Categories
1908-1922 Prison Data
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 […]
Categories
Questions about Atlanta
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 […]
Categories
Population Changes
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 […]
Categories
Project #1: Atlanta and Civil Rights
Atlanta, Georgia has been an important location for civil rights for over a century. From being reborn as the city of the New South to acting as the stage for some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, Atlanta has housed many progressive ideals throughout its history. While this may be true, Atlanta still has a […]
Categories
Atlanta, Georgia
I chose Atlanta, Georgia because of a previous class I had taken that went over the history of Georgia. At the end of the class, we reviewed the book White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin M. Kruse. I found this book interesting, and I wanted to learn more about Atlanta’s […]
