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Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948 par Clifford M Kuhn : HC/DJ
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Numéro de l'objet eBay :255606125388
Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Pages
- 432
- Publication Date
- 1990-01-01
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Cities
- ISBN
- 9780820311616
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Series
- Brown Thrasher Books Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Living Atlanta : an Oral History of the City, 1914-1948
- Item Height
- 1.9in
- Item Length
- 10.4in
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Item Width
- 7.3in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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From the memories of everyday experience, Living Atlanta vividly recreates life in the city during the three decades from World War I through World War II-a period in which a small, regional capital became a center of industry, education, finance, commerce, and travel. This profusely illustrated volume draws on nearly two hundred interviews with Atlanta residents who recall, in their own words, "the way it was"-from segregated streetcars to college fraternity parties, from moonshine peddling to visiting performances by the Metropolitan Opera, from the growth of neighborhoods to religious revivals. The book is based on a celebrated public radio series that was broadcast in 1979-80 and hailed by Studs Terkel as "an important, exciting project-a truly human portrait of a city of people." Living Atlanta presents a diverse array of voices-domestics and businessmen, teachers and factory workers, doctors and ballplayers. There are memories of the city when it wasn't quite a city: "Back in those young days it was country in Atlanta," musician Rosa Lee Carson reflects. "It sure was. Why, you could even raise a cow out there in your yard." There are eyewitness accounts of such major events as the Great Fire of 1917: "The wind blowing that way, it was awful," recalls fire fighter Hugh McDonald. "There'd be a big board on fire, and the wind would carry that board, and it'd hit another house and start right up on that one. And it just kept spreading." There are glimpses of the workday: "It's a real job firing an engine, a darn hard job," says railroad man J. R. Spratlin. "I was using a scoop and there wasn't no eight hour haul then, there was twelve hours, sometimes sixteen." And there are scenes of the city at play: "Baseball was the popular sport," remembers Arthur Leroy Idlett, who grew up in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. "Everybody had teams. And people-you could put some kids out there playing baseball, and before you knew a thing, you got a crowd out there, watching kids play." Organizing the book around such topics as transportation, health and religion, education, leisure, and politics, the authors provide a narrative commentary that places the diverse remembrances in social and historical context. Resurfacing throughout the book as a central theme are the memories of Jim Crow and the peculiarities of black-white relations. Accounts of Klan rallies, job and housing discrimination, and poll taxes are here, along with stories about the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, early black forays into local politics, and the role of the city's black colleges. Martin Luther King, Sr., historian Clarence Bacote, former police chief Herbert Jenkins, educator Benjamin Mays, and sociologist Arthur Raper are among those whose recollections are gathered here, but the majority of the voices are those of ordinary Atlantans, men and women who in these pages relive day-to-day experiences of a half-century ago.
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820311618
ISBN-13
9780820311616
eBay Product ID (ePID)
532332
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Living Atlanta : an Oral History of the City, 1914-1948
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Series
Brown Thrasher Books Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.4in
Item Height
1.9in
Item Width
7.3in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
While we learn a good bit about the development of Atlanta over the years within the context of contemporary historiography, the heart and soul of the book is its depiction of the machinations of a segregated society. . . . Living Atlanta deserves respect for telling a difficult story. A valuable guide to Atlanta's complicated personality and its wonderful, terrible past. The most vivid retrospective of twentieth-century life in Georgia. Living Atlanta should serve as a foundation for reevaluating the origins of race relations in the urban New South. It is an important and an innovative work that warrants a wide readership. It is a very readable history, and any of its chapters could well be expanded to book length. . . . Essential for libraries with collections on Atlanta and southern racial relations. A captivating narrative that weaves quotations into the prose. Rather than presenting a collection of transcribed interviews, the book tells a story with the enrichment of personal recollections. . . . The authors and their interview subjects present a detailed portrait of life in a southern city when segregation prevailed at every turn. . . . The oral history interviews reveal with great poignancy how the institutions and mores enforcing segregation shaped the lives of whites and blacks alike. The book captures the subjugation of blacks by whites and the efforts of black Atlantans to live within these conditions. Living Atlanta , however, does more, communicating across the years a rich and varied history of the city and its people. This book is a delight, a true history of private life, and the lives fly past 'just like a dog runnin' a rabbit.' A rich, evocative study which provides vignettes of a number of important topics such as race relations, neighborhood development, the depression, politics, crime, labor unions and strikes, religion, music, and recreation. . . . A handsome volume that shows the maturity of public history. . . . Teachers will mine it for telling detail to enliven lectures and textbooks. The wider public will find compelling reminders of the southern roots of jet-set Atlanta. Living Atlanta discloses a view of the New South that is dynamic and rich in human complexity. . . . The authors' successful use of oral interviews to bring to life the momentous events and everyday experiences of ordinary people will fascinate many readers. . . . Other scholar scholars interested in putting oral history to good use will want to follow the lead established by Living Atlanta. A highly readable, personal view of the seat of the civil rights movement from the eyes of the people living through the stress of the segregated South.
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Dewey Decimal
975.8/231
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
History
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