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The 10th Paralympic Games and Their Place in Disability History
Atlanta’s Paralympic Games represent many significant benchmarks for Paralympic and disability history.
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Atlanta’s Paralympic Games represent many significant benchmarks for Paralympic and disability history.
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Honoring the legacy of baseball player, racial equality activist, and historic home run record breaker, Hank Aaron.
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Students attend a ballet class at Norma’s Academy of Fine Arts on Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta on November 17, 1973.
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The Angel Drill Team, the championship team from the Waukean-Zion-North Chicago area, perform in Woodruff Park in 1974.
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A group of children prepare for a pickup game of basketball in the Bedford Pine neighborhood in January 1971.
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Portrait of a young woman with her bicycle taken by Kuhns Studio in 1895.
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Atlanta’s Games included legendary athletes, intense rivalries, and exciting underdogs. We’ve collected a few of our favorites from the summer of ‘96.
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On July 4, 1970, 150 runners gathered in the parking lot of Sears & Roebuck on the corner of Peachtree and Roswell Roads and ran 6.2 miles to the Central City Park finish line in the inaugural Peachtree Road Race.
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In 1987, Atlanta attorney William Porter Payne founded the Georgia Amateur Athletic Foundation with a quest to win the bid for the Centennial Olympic Games for Atlanta.
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Founded in October 1885, the Georgia School of Technology utilized $65,000 in state appropriations to establish a 400-acre campus on the northern edge of the city.
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The oldest continually operating sports franchise in America was also the first major league sports team in the Deep South.
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When Hank Aaron arrived in Atlanta with the Braves in 1966, he was already one of baseball’s most successful sluggers.
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