Georgia

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/13/2021
  

  Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School

  “Names do matter,” Jason F. Esteves, Atlanta’s school board chairman, said at Monday’s meeting.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/6/2021
  

  If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?

  by Jamelle Bouie

  NYT Columnist Jamelle Bouie relies on the historical writing of J. Morgan Kousser, who showed that disenfranchisement after 1877 affected African American and poor white southerners, was implemented through color-blind means, and had partisan, rather than simply racial, goals. But it was still Jim Crow, and the comparison to Georgia's new law is fair and valid. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/31/2021
  

  The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law

  by Jason Morgan Ward

  The new wave of vote suppression bills, like the one in Georgia, reflect a less obvious but important aspect of Jim Crow law: the use of superficially race-neutral language to keep specific groups from voting. The danger is that courts today will similarly fail to see these bills for what they are. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/25/2021
  

  What Jim Crow looks like in 2021

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The most relevant aspect of Jim Crow today isn't the Klan, but the "color blind" legislation that Southern conservatives used to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment. 

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• SOURCE: WABE
  3/1/2021
  

  Ga. Lawmaker Authors Bills To Abolish Confederate Monuments In Peach State

  Georgia state representative Shelly Hutchinson argues that while Confederate monuments stand,"there’s no healing that takes place there, and that means you are OK with where we are at as a country.”

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  3/2/2021
  

  Georgia’s Center of Political Gravity Shifting Toward Atlanta

  "As Georgia transforms from a Republican stronghold to the nation’s premier battleground state, a seismic geographic shift is underway."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/19/2021
  

  A Georgia Lawmaker Asked How Colleges Teach ‘Privilege’ and ‘Oppression.’ Here’s How They Responded

  State legislative inquiries in Georgia about how public universities teach concepts like white privilege require a large burden of administrative work and internal review by the colleges, with the largest share of scrutiny falling on history classes. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/23/2021
  

  Historical Markers About Notable Black Georgians Shot, Vandalized

  Markers in South Georgia paid tribute to Jackie Robinson and lynching victim Mary Turner.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  3/3/2021
  

  New Bills Target Stone Mountain, Confederate Monuments Across Georgia

  Two bills would act to broadly prohibit the maintenance or construction of Confederate monuments except in museums or on Civil War battlefields and authorize the state-chartered agency that maintains Stone Mountain Park to remove or modify the park's massive bas relief tribute to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/27/2021
  

  What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power

  by Jeanne Theoharis

  A student of Congressman Julian Bond and a biographer of Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis describes how those two figures demonstrated the real political story behind the mythologized civil rights movement. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/23/2021
  

  How Alvin the Beagle Helped Usher in a Democratic Senate

  On the surface, Raphael Warnock's campaign ads featured a cute beagle. But they reflected a calculated – and successful – effort to counter racial dynamics in Georgia politics to bring about a historic victory. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/21/2021
  

  Georgia’s New Senators will Write the Next Chapter in Black-Jewish Relations

  by Jeff Melnick

  The history of the Leo Frank trial and lynching shows that, while both groups have faced prejudice and discrimination, "the glory of Black-Jewish relations has always been more aspirational than achieved." Georgia's two new senators have a chance to advance a coalition for progress and equity.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/10/2020
  

  Black Southerners are Wielding Political Power that was Denied their Parents and Grandparents

  While the voter mobilization efforts that tipped Georgia's senate races to the Democrats have been much-discussed, they capitalized on a long-term shift in the Black population to the urban and suburban south, a "reverse great migration" that will be politically consequential for years to come. 

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• 1/10/2021
  

  Historical Rhetoric Resurfaced in Georgia's Runoff Election

  by Alicia K. Jackson

  Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock didn't just defeat their Republican opponents on January 5, they defeated a number of racist tropes that have characterized Georgia politics since Reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/7/2021
  

  'Another Milestone in the Long, Long Road.' Rev. Raphael Warnock's Georgia Senate Victory Made History in Multiple Ways

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Historians including Adam Domby and Kali Nicole Gross relate the symbolic and political significance of Rev. Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia's senate runoff. But that history suggests gains in Black political power will face backlash, warns Carol Anderson. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/5/2021
  

  Will the Democrats Win in Georgia?

  by Jason Sokol

  Eugene Talmadge served three terms as Georgia's governor through a combination of racism, attacks on government, and a state electoral system that grossly overrepresented rural whites. The January 5 runoff will test whether at least one of those dynamics has changed in Georgia politics. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/3/2021
  

  Ebenezer Baptist: MLK’s Church Makes New History In Georgia’s Senate Runoff

  Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was an incubator of the fight for voting rights; its current pastor seeks election as Georgia's U.S. Senator.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1/4/2021
  

  Georgia's Rural Black Voters were Ignored and Suppressed. Now they Might Flip the Senate

  Takeo Spikes, a native of Washington County, Georgia, retired from the NFL to earn and MBA and serves on the board of the New Georgia Project. He says that Black Georgians are realizing their power at the polls after decades of vote suppression and political discouragement. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/2/2021
  

  ‘Year of the Reveal’: Runoffs Follow Pandemic, Protests and a Test of Atlanta’s Promise

  Civil rights historian Calinda Lee places Atlanta at the center of political and economic changes in the south, but whether the change is deep or superficial remains to be seen. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/4/2021
  

  The Racial History Of Georgia's Runoff Elections

  Political scientists examine the establishment of Georgia's runoff election procedures as part of historical efforts to limit the power of Black voters in the state.