BIPOC

Honoring the legacy of baseball player, racial equality activist, and historic home run record breaker, Hank Aaron.

Students attend a ballet class at Norma’s Academy of Fine Arts on Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta on November 17, 1973.

Guests gather at Charles and Dorothy Ross’s home on Eleanor Terrace in Collier Heights for a party in 1975.

An unidentified performer in drag cabaret at the Cheshire Bridge Club in 1972.

The Angel Drill Team, the championship team from the Waukean-Zion-North Chicago area, perform in Woodruff Park in 1974.

Congressman Andrew Young and his son Bo run down the hallway of the Rayburn House of Representatives Building in Washington in June, 1975.

An employee works in the production room at the offices of the Atlanta Inquirer, a Black-owned newspaper, on Parson Street, ca. 1970.

Atlanta Mayor-elect Maynard Jackson makes a speech on election night on October 3, 1973 at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Midtown.

A group of anonymous teens fish in Piedmont Park, ca. 1970.

An unidentified duo boogie at a school gym in Atlanta, ca. 1970.

A group of children prepare for a pickup game of basketball in the Bedford Pine neighborhood in January 1971.

Portrait of a young woman with her bicycle taken by Kuhns Studio in 1895.

A woman poses with a microscope used for determining tuberculosis test results at a health fair sponsored by the Atlanta Lung Association.

African American students integrated Atlanta high schools on August 30, 1961.