Culture and Society

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.

Members of Midtown’s famous hippy community relax in Piedmont Park during a 1972 Hare Krishna festival.

Guy Sharp, a meteorologist on WXIA-TV, gets into costume for a dinner party announcing the release of a sequel to the movie Planet of the Apes.

A sign at the Union County Fair advertises Madam Tillie’s fortune telling services in 1972.

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

Friends hanging out on a Midtown front porch, ca. 1970.

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

Building housing the plant and botany exhibitions at the 1895 Cotton States Exposition in Piedmont Park.

The Cocktail Girls perform on stage at 688 Club on Spring Street in Midtown in 1987.

A costume-clad Atlantan stands between the tombstones in Oakland Cemetery, ca. 1915.

Diamond Lil performs in a drag cabaret at an un identified Atlanta venue in 1971.

A model strikes a pose for a fashion campaign, ca. 1970.