• Panel Discussion: Gene Kansas

    February 19, 2025  7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    McElreath Hall, 130 W Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305, United States

    Once the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the globally significant birthplace of the civil rights movement; and it also lays in the wake of social, commercial, and urban challenges that have left some of its most important spaces and places in a state of peril―and even in danger of demolition―as Atlanta grows in, around, and over it.

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  • Michael L. Thurmond, 2025 Roswell Roots celebration

    February 20, 2025  6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest St, Roswell, GA 30075, USA

    A book discussion with Michael L. Thurmond, author of James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia and currently Dekalb County’s CEO.

    The book James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia, uncovers Oglethorpe's evolution from slave trader to abolitionist, propelled by intellectual relationships with two formerly enslaved black men. A compelling storyteller, Michael L. Thurmond is also the author of Freedom: Georgia's Antislavery Heritage and Black Men and Women in Athens History. As the Chief Executive Officer of Dekalb County (through 2024), Thurmond has served in the Georgia Legislature, as Director of Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services, Georgia Labor Commissioner, and as Superintendent of Dekalb County Schools.

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  • Kendra Hamilton at the International Gullah Geechee Festival

    February 22, 2025  9:00 am - 4:00 pm

    Sponsored by Coastal Carolina University. Kendra Hamilton will be selling copies of Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess.

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  • Author Event: Ashley Callahan's "Frankie Welch's Americana"

    February 23, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Oconee County Library, 1925 Electric Ave, Watkinsville, GA 30677, USA

    Event details: https://athenslibrary.libcal.com/event/13815219

    Ashley Callahan talks about her book "Frankie Welch's Americana".  Frankie Welch (1924-2021) combined a creative mind and an entrepreneurial spirit to establish herself as a leading American textile, accessories, and fashion designer in a career that spanned four decades, from the 1960s through the 1990s. This lavishly illustrated book provides a lively account of her life and career, tracing her rise from the small town of Rome, Georgia, to her role as a doyenne of fashion in the Washington, D.C., area. Featuring her scarf and fashion designs for the 1968 presidential campaigns, the history of her influential dress shop in Alexandria, Virginia, her connections to first ladies and other D.C. tastemakers, and her exuberant embrace of Americana during the U.S. Bicentennial, this history weaves Welch’s personal biography into the literal fabric of our country.

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