by editors | Apr 6, 2016 | Homepage
Georgia State University sits atop what was once the hub of Atlanta’s African American red-light district, a rich assemblage of blues and rag-time clubs, and the old city jail. Today, Student Innovation Fellows are working to recreate this lost piece of...
by editors | Mar 4, 2016 | 3D Atlanta, Atlanta connections, Homepage, mapping, News
As part of our efforts to map historic Atlanta, SIF fellows have geo-tagged a GSU Library/Atlanta-Fulton Central Library collection of glass plate negative photographs from the 1920s. These beautiful images provide rare glimpses into the area around the Five Points...
by editors | Jan 19, 2016 | Atlanta connections, digital humanities, Homepage, News, SIF Projects
Figures like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X are central to the history of the Black Freedom Struggle; however the larger story of African American Islam before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement remains to be told. The religious tradition of Islam has been drawn...
by editors | Nov 30, 2015 | Homepage, News
Georgia State University is developing a national reputation for innovation and excellence in undergraduate education – the U.S. News & World Report, for instance, recently named it the 14th best school in the country at educating undergrads, in company with...
