Linnentown Documentary: Urban Renewal, White Supremacy, and the University of Georgia
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A campus built on Indigenous lands by slave hands, buried beneath the very buildings which were cut off from Black students 100 years later, has tried to make amends with its history of exclusion and denial. But this fall, nearly 4,000 students will fall asleep each night on top of the torched, obliterated ground where 50 Black families once lived.
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Thanks for sharing this history. If no one talks about it, no one will know about it. You’re doing your part.
I am 75 and attended UGA from 1968 - 1970. My first year as a junior, there was one black student on my hall. I will always remember her because she didn't have a roommate and kept to herself. A few students and myself tried to talk to her, but she wasn't interested. I believe she was upset about the black history and mistreatment of black people. I was so naive and aware of urban renewal as a way to force black people out of Athens This video is so disgusting and wrong. In 2023 I know progress has been made, but the history and plight of the black person never forgotten. I'm so disgusted with UGA. I lived in Mell Hall and Crestwell ( not sure about that name). Thank you for your eye opening presentation. Joy Gaston
I’m from Columbia Missouri and we had the same situation . In my City the black section of the town was called the sharp end.
9/7/2023 the Athens Banner Herald announced the first event of the newly organized Taylor-Grady House National Historic Landmark Inc. will be held on Sept. 17, 2023, as a public reception after the taping of a documentary, "The Forgotten Five." The documentary will include interviews from the first five students who integrated Athens' schools in 1963. It's sponsored by the Clarke County School District and The Association for the Study of African American Life and History. I moved to Athens in August 1964. The "Forgotten Five" were my classmates and I remember them well. I certainly hope this documentary is widely distributed or posted on social media/etc. so that it can be seen by as many as people possible.
Really excellent overview, thank you for this film!
On August 10, 2020, the Athens Confederate Monument was removed from the intersection of Broad Street and College Avenue in downtown Athens. By June 2021, the memorial was reassembled at its current location at the end of Timothy Place visible from the Athens Perimeter. Its current placement is near the site of the Battle of Barber Creek, a skirmish that occurred on August 2, 1864.
@sharonjones5745
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Information/ History that is available but not discussed…I wonder why not.. No, I know why not 😢
I grew up in Athens, I had heard about this, but not in depth. Great job!
The Athens-Clarke County commissioners this week (9/7/2023) approved a new lease for the Taylor-Grady House National Historic Landmark Inc. Once the lease is signed, the new tenants for the property located 634 Prince Ave. "expect to be an open door for all to experience an inclusive history through education, preservation and hospitality," according to a news release. With new tenants comes new beginnings for the Taylor-Grady House, such as a new name, which is Landmark Commons at Taylor-Grady House. The shared space also includes incorporating the ground floor into an African American museum that hosts meetings.
Something similar happened here to an old Black neighborhood, and they tore it down to build a street and parking lots for a shopping center.
This was Awesome!! From Athens and did not know.
Extensive research needs to be done on how long each family had lived in Linnentown before moved out. How long did each owner own their house and how much did each owner receive in todays dollars for each house. Are there actual documents verifying no notice to tenants? How many tenants where behind on rent? How many owners were people of color and how many owners of Linnentown houses were white.
Damn apologies make right your wrong period
Why black people always got to except apologies thats the problem
wow
I wonder if the narrator would like to move to a poor black neighborhood? I wonder if his kids go to an integrated school? I seriously doubt it.
@funeralparties
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That is quite the twatty comment
@1MarkKeller
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@darrellappling9276
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Need do something now white people trying take everything
@darrellappling9276
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White low down today it same get everything we got