Georgia

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Bill Moyers
  12/15/2020
  

  Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia

  A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Georgia Election Official Joins Long Line of Voices to Call for ‘Living in Truth'

  by Jeffrey H. Jackson

  "History shows us that people -- sometimes one at a time -- can defend the truth by pointing out what everyone knows but which the powerful sometimes refuse to believe."

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• Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress

  by Max Blau and Todd Michney

  Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/10/2020
  

  The Long History of Black Women Organizing in Georgia Might Decide Senate Control

  by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham

  Black women in Georgia have long been leaders in building coalitions for political rights, labor protection, and equal justice under law. It's fitting that Black women have been leaders in the state's political shift toward the Democrats. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/8/2020
  

  Even if Georgia Turns Blue, North Carolina may not Follow

  by Michael Bitzer and Virginia Summey

  North Carolina's politics have long been characterized by a competition between fairly evenly balanced forces of conservatism and moderation. Democrats who hope to permanently tip the state in their favor are likely to be disappointed. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2020
  

  How Atlanta’s Politics Overtook the Suburbs, Too

  Kevin Kruse is among the scholars of Atlanta who offer insight on how the growth of the metro area has overcome the division between the city and its suburbs and turned Georgia purple.