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Hank Aaron, an Atlanta Icon
Honoring the legacy of baseball player, racial equality activist, and historic home run record breaker, Hank Aaron.
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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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Guests gather at Charles and Dorothy Ross’s home on Eleanor Terrace in Collier Heights for a party in 1975.
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An unidentified performer in drag cabaret at the Cheshire Bridge Club in 1972.
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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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Congressman Andrew Young and his son Bo run down the hallway of the Rayburn House of Representatives Building in Washington in June, 1975.
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An employee works in the production room at the offices of the Atlanta Inquirer, a Black-owned newspaper, on Parson Street, ca. 1970.
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Atlanta Mayor-elect Maynard Jackson makes a speech on election night on October 3, 1973 at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Midtown.
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A group of anonymous teens fish in Piedmont Park, ca. 1970.
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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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A woman poses with a microscope used for determining tuberculosis test results at a health fair sponsored by the Atlanta Lung Association.
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African American students integrated Atlanta high schools on August 30, 1961.
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