BIPOC

For more than fifty years, Ethel Mae Matthews worked tirelessly for greater welfare rights for Atlanta’s poor and disabled.

Atlanta History Center is a founding partner and host site for two installations in Midtown Alliance’s Heart of the Arts program.

Learn about the farm’s history with a particular emphasis on the enslaved people’s garden, the kitchen garden, and the crops at Smith Farm.

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.