The BiRacial History Project’s Interactive Virtual Walking Tour, hosted by the Freedom Park Conservancy & Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
The Geography of History: Echoes Beneath Our Feet.
Black community displacements have a long history. For our recent guest column in the Saporta Report, June 5, 2023, about removals in Candler Park and other neighborhoods.
Decades after Neighborhood was Razed to Create Candler Park, Black Community is Memorialized through Biracial Effort. Atlanta Journal Constitution, November 13, 2022, article by Bo Emerson.
Going Home. Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 16, 2007, article by Jim Auchmutey. The massed choir of Antioch East Baptist Church returns to the Old Stone Church at the invitation of the First Existentialist Congregation.
Edgewood/Candler Park: A study of the Suburbanization Process in Atlanta, 1880–1980, by Ann Huston (1985 Historic Preservation MA thesis). See especially pp. 79–101, “The Black Side of Edgewood/Candler Park”
Articles in the Messenger
(Candler Park Neighborhood Organization’s monthly newsletter)
December 2022: cover, pages 14–16. “My Experience of the Commemoration of the Rose Hill Community,” by Mother Mary A. Carithers, Historian, Antioch East Baptist Church. Rose Hallelujahs, by Edith Kelman, BiRacial History Project Manager.
October 2022, p. 14. “One Hundred Years Ago in Candler Park (Rose Hill Commemoration),” by Edith Kelman, BiRacial History Project Manager.
August 2022, p. 8. “100 Years of Candler Park,” by Emily Taff.
July 2022, p. 12–13. “Help Us Remember the Rose Hill Community,” by Edith Kelman, BiRacial History Project Manager.
August 2021, p. 12–14. “Probing Jim Crow in Candler Park: Part Two,” by the Early Edgewood–Candler Park BiRacial History Project.
July 2021, p. 12–13. “Probing Jim Crow in Candler Park: Part One,” by the Early Edgewood–Candler Park BiRacial History Project.
June 2021, p. 8. “Biracial Candler Park: Integration or Proximity during Jim Crow?,” by the Early Edgewood–Candler Park BiRacial History Project.
April 2021, p. 8. “A Hooper Street Herstory: Mrs. Sophie Lillian Greene Carey’s Reflections on her 101 years,” by Sophie Lillian Greene Carey.