Rev. Edward Ducree
CRISIS House, Vernon Place
built the first house in downtown since the 1940- 1950s in the section of single-family homes spared from being razed, adjacent to the former Buttermilk Bottom
State Rep. Alveda King
MUSICIANS WHO PLAYED MUSIC OR BOARDED IN FORREST ARMS HOTEL WC Handy, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Nicholas Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Jackie Wilson, Dinah Washington, Motown Revue, and Billie Holiday
MAJOR EMPLOYERS OF FORMER BUTTERMILK BOTTOM RESIDENTS SCRIPTO FACTORY Operation Breadbasket monitored the strike at Scripto Factory. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who are they, led a direct-action campaign against Scripto Factory due to the dangerous working conditions, which included long hours, low wages, physical harm, and death.
CULTURAL SPACES PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO
Thomas Askew had a studio on Summit Avenue, which had been burned to the ground during the Great Fire of 1917. All the contents except for a sewing machine were destroyed. 307
SCHOOLS STORRS SCHOOL
The earliest school serving Freed people in Atlanta was built on land from the Grant Estate. 308 The school was located on Houston Street near Piedmont, the first school set up by the American Missionary Association, and was one of the sites receiving formerly enslaved people arriving in Atlanta for a brighter future. 309 The precedent of schools
307 Mason, African- American Entertainment, p.
308 McEwen, “First Congregational,” p.
309 McEwen, “First Congregational,” p.
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