Volume XIII, No. 3 November 2016
Kayla Morris, African American Programs Assistant
Historic Preservation Division
Daddy King: Stockbridge Shapes A Legacy of Love
Stockbridge, Georgia native, Martin Luther King Sr., the
father of notable Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King
Jr., was a Civil Rights leader himself, and his life and work
in Stockbridge helped to not only shape his beliefs in fighting
injustice but to influence him to become a minister of the Gospel.
Through adversity Martin Luther King Sr., was able to go through
life striving to better himself. Being born in rural Henry County,
and lacking access to education or resources to succeed as an
African American, King Sr., left for Atlanta, GA; there he was
able to build a reputation of himself as a worthy leader and
become a pillar of the African American community. King Sr.,
served as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta for 44
years, and served in various organizations, including the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Born on December 19, 1899 to James Albert King and
Delia Lindsay, Martin
Luther was the second
of ten children-five
girls Woodie, Lenora,
Cleo, Lucille, and
Ruby, and five boys
i n c l u d i n g K i n g ,
James, Henry, Joel,
and a baby named
Lucius, who died in
infancy. While his
mother insisted his
name be Michael, and
many of his family and
friends called him Mike, his father wanted to name him after two
of his brothers, Martin and Luther.
King’s father, James, was a sharecropper in Stockbridge, and the
entire family worked in the fields.
As was common in rural Georgia during this time, the school year
in Stockbridge was three months with only one school available
to blacks with one teacher, Mrs. Low, the wife of a local preacher.
In King’s autobiography, Daddy King, he discusses his experiences
growing up in Stockbridge, and his love of education:
“An old shack had served for more years than anyone could
remember as the school for Negro kids, and there was one
teacher for all of us, young ones and older alike. The wife of
Floyd Chapel’s preacher, Mrs. Low, taught us, working as
hard as one person could to bring us an education in that
cold and damp little building.”- Martin Luther King Sr. 1
King Sr., faced racially-based hatred and violence in
Stockbridge in the early 19th century. He remembered his
father being abused by the owner of the land he and the
family worked. He witnessed a lynching of a black man who
worked at a local mill. As a young boy King went with his
father to take their cotton and cotton seed harvest to a man
named Mr. “Settle Up” Graves; Graves not only owned the
property the King family resided on but he ran the cotton trade
in Stockbridge. During one harvest a young King noticed his
father was being cheated by Mr. Graves, and decided to speak
up. This created problems for James King and family who were
eventually evicted by Graves for challenging him.
In his book King Sr., tells of hearing a racial epithets used
towards him and recognizing this injustice at a very early age.
At age six or seven, King Sr., realized his white childhood
friend was always called by his name whereas many whites
referred to King as “their n*****.”
1 Martin Luther King Sr., Daddy King: An Autobiography,
William Morrow and Co., New York, 1980. 30.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. in Macon,
Georgia, July 20, 1977. Associated Press
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Daddy King: Stockbridge Shapes A Legacy of Love
Once when King’s mother sent to him to fetch milk from a
dairy cow at a sawmill, he was interrupted by the sawmill
owner who directed King to do another chore instead. After
King refused to perform a chore for the sawmill owner instead,
he was beaten; this was a turning point for King and his views
on race relations.2
At the age of 14, King set out to become a licensed preacher at
the Floyd Chapel Baptist Church. King was known to have the
extraordinary preaching skills from a very young age and more
education than many of the deacons in the church which was a
bit intimidating to the church’s leadership. Soon after receiving
his preaching license, King decided to take matters into his
own hands and leave Stockbridge. King joined the railroad, and
worked as a coal hauler on a steam engine locomotive.
Though this job paid heavily, the price of grief for his mother
who did not know where he had gone, was heavier. When his
mother discovered where King had “run off to” Mrs. King
arrived at the rail yards and brought him back home.
King eventually fled Stockbridge for good when he enrolled
at the Bryant School in Cobb County in order to obtain a high
school diploma. Here, King had to start from the fifth grade,
at the age of 18. These were night classes, so he worked to
not only pay for his courses but also to pay his and his sister
Woodie’s rent. King worked hard and was able to enter
Morehouse College, with the support of his new wife Alberta
“Bunch” Williams King. and Morehouse President John Hope.
2 Martin Luther King Sr., Daddy King: An Autobiography, William
Morrow and Co., New York, 1980. 28-30, 32-34.
“Even today, when more than seventy years have gone by, I
think of my parents, out there in Stockbridge, and all they
confronted in life that made my leaving there both so difficult
and so very necessary.” Martin Luther King Sr. (p.32)
After completing his studies at Morehouse, Martin Luther King
Sr., became a reverend at Ebenezer Baptist. He and Alberta had
three children, A.D. King, Christine, and Martin Luther King Jr.
King Sr., became a leader within the Atlanta community and
worked tirelessly for several organizations. He became the head
of the NAACP in Atlanta, Civic and Political League of Atlanta
and served on the board of Morehouse College. King Sr., was a
supporter of social change, and through his work he devoted his
time to ending racial injustices. Even in his day to day life King
Sr., would not accept the status quo; he did not appreciate the fact
that as a black man he was not given the same respect as a white
man.
King Jr., told a story of his father being stopped by a police officer,
and the officer referring to his father as a boy. King Sr., replied,
pointing at his son, “This is a boy, I’m a man; until you call me
one, I will not listen to you.” In 1984, King Sr., died at the age
of 84 and was interred next to his wife at South View Cemetery in
Atlanta.
King Sr., should be noted as a part of the foundation of the Civil
Rights Movement, with many other African Americans who stood
up for justice before there were planned protests and organizations
to fight legalized these injustices through the legal system. Being
born just over forty years after slavery’s end, King Sr., was able
to change his circumstance through determination and hard work;
his strength of mind and desire to stand for what was right was
passed on to the next generation, and helped to foster a leader who
would not only garner praise from the black community, but would
receive acclamation globally.
Martin Luther King, King Jr., and King III
Richard Avedon Newsweek/The Daily Beast
Floyd Chapel Baptist Church of Stockbridge,
 Founded in 1878. Photo by Melissa Jest
Kayla Morris, continued from page 1
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Thomas Askew: Photographic Framer
of Black identity in Early 20th Century Atlanta
Cited as the most prominent early African-American (or
Black) photographer in Atlanta, Thomas Askew’s place
in the city’s historical mythology often goes overlooked,
but in Oakland Cemetery, where he is buried in a family plot
in the cemetery’s African American Grounds, it’s a little easier
to get a sense of the life he lived and the company he kept,
even now in death. While a burial at Oakland Cemetery doesn’t
necessarily mean the deceased attained a certain measure of
wealth, there is often at least the assumption that s/he achieved
a sense of prominence in life, or at least was born into an
esteemed family — so it was with Askew.
Not much is known about
Askew’s early life. Several
sources place his birth
in 1847. Though it is not
known where he was a
slave, we know he was one.
In 1869 he married a young
seamstress named Mary.
According to
Herman Mason’s
Hidden Treasures:
African-American
Photographers in Atlanta, 1870-1970, Askew is listed in the
1884 city directory as an employee of the C. W. Motes Studio,
where he worked as a printer. In 1896 he and his family moved
to 114 Summit Avenue, which would become his home and
studio. The Askews had nine children--daughters Minnie,
Nellie, and Jeanette and six sons,
Thomas Askew lived through slavery, the Reconstruction Era,
and the beginnings of Jim Crow in the American South. As
such, he lived in a particular moment of Blackness in Atlanta,
and as a photographer took advantage of the opportunity to
shape the visual culture around Black people and the identity of
Atlanta through his perspective. His work showed Black people
in various states of middle-class existence and a diversity of
visual identities, and also represented a moment when Black
people began to take charge of the representations of their own
identity. Black people were framing their own image for public
consumption.
 “Why do not more young colored men and women take up
photography as a career? The average white photographer
does not know how to deal with colored skins and having
neither sense of the delicate beauty of tone nor will to learn,
he makes a horrible botch of portraying them.”
- W.E.B. DuBois, The Crisis magazine,1923
 Thomas Askew, Self Portrait,. Date unknown.
Library of Congress
Floyd Hall, Freelance Writer for ArtsATL
Thomas Askew: “Summit Avenue Ensemble, Atlanta, Georgia” (est.
date 1899 or 1900). Silver gelatin print. Library of Congress.
The ability to frame and own one’s identity is no small feat;
grappling with identity and perception is of historic importance
among people of color, many of whom often feel misrepresented
and miscast by the news media, commercial advertising
and entertainment institutions. In those aforementioned
areas, stereotypes are too common, nuances are missed, and
representations often lack depth or authenticity. Thus, early Black
photographers (and subsequent visual creators) were the early
disruptors of the white-controlled visual narrative of Blackness;
they were able to present their version of a Black perspective,
framed by the authenticity of their experiences, understanding,
eye and empathy for their subjects.
Thomas Askew died on July 12, 1914, after an extended illness,
and upon his death according to Mason, the local paper The
Atlanta Independent described him as one of “Atlanta’s oldest
and most efficient photographers.” While the life of Thomas
Askew ended in 1914, his story effectively “ends” with the Great
Atlanta Fire of 1917, in which his former home, studio, and all
of his photographic equipment was destroyed. That fire, which
destroyed more than 300 acres and 1,900 buildings and displaced
over 10,000 people, forever changed the Old Fourth Ward area of
the city.
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This article was originally published on ArtsATL, Atlanta’s
leading resource for thoughtful, critical analysis, news resources,
commentary, programming and in-depth features of the city’s
vibrant arts scene. For the rest of this article and more articles
like it, please visit ArtsATL.com http://www.artsatl.com/thomasaskew/
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Revelation Through Restoration: Atlanta Cemetery
Connects with their African American Grounds
Marcy Breffle, Education Coordinator, and Neale Nickels,
Director of Preservation, Historic Oakland Cemetery
Founded in 1850 Historic Oakland Cemetery is one of
Atlanta’s oldest historic landmarks. The 48-acre green
space reflects the cultural diversity of Atlanta with
the mausoleums of industrial tycoons sitting opposite the
simple headstones of laborers. Oakland’s African American
Grounds was designated by the Atlanta City Council in 1866,
and remained separate until Oakland was desegregated in the
early 1960s. Oakland’s African American Grounds became
the final resting place of numerous citizens whom helped
shape Atlanta over the next two centuries.
Historic Oakland Foundation (HOF) plans to restore this
significant African American historic site beginning in 2017.
This multi-phase project will ensure that future generations,
including descendants of Oakland residents, will be able to
visit and experience the African American Grounds.
Throughout 2016, HOF has been working to research,
plan, and secure funding for the restoration of the 3.5-acre
section section. In our initial research and planning phase,
we sought to map the marked and unmarked graves in the
African American Grounds. Oakland’s burial records reveal
that there were a few unmarked burials, but our hand-drawn
historical maps cannot provide exact locations of these
graves. We believe that the unmarked graves at Oakland may
have been previously marked with more ephemeral objects
– things like wooden crosses, plants, seashells, or even
personal possessions, known as “grave goods,” left by family
members to commemorate a loved one.
To locate these graves, we used a tool called Ground
Penetrating Radar (GPR) which sends radar waves through
the soil. These waves bounce back if they encounter a buried
object, such as a coffin or a vault. By using GPR we hoped
to locate unmarked burials and also correct any discrepancies
between the historical records and the field survey results.
Our consultant, Bigman Geophysical, identified 872 probable
unmarked burials through the GPR survey. The sheer number of
unmarked burials begs the question – why do nearly a fifth of the
graves in this area lack a marker? The exploration into whether
these graves were designated with natural markers (which would
have decomposed), stone markers (which could have sunk
beneath the ground surface), or not at all will allow us to learn
more about African American culture and burial customs.
 As we work to compare the GPR results to Oakland’s burial
records, we hope this will help us identify some of the unmarked
burials and link them to living descendants through community
engagement. This project will continue throughout the hardscape
and landscape restoration of the section.
The restoration of Oakland Cemetery’s African American
Grounds is a large project, and one that requires support from the
Atlanta community. We encourage you to visit Oakland Cemetery
and take one of our tours to learn more about this project. Stop by
the Visitor’s Center to research if you have ancestors buried at
Oakland. If you are a descendent of someone buried in the
African American Grounds, we want to hear from you.
Flags mark results of ground penetrating radar in Oakland ‘s African
American section. Historic Oakland Foundation
HOF also offers a special program, Juneteenth at Oakland
Cemetery which includes complimentary tours, a cultural treasure
hunt for children, and the opportunity for visitors to do
genealogical research. To learn more about this project or to
make a financial contribution to this project, please visit http://
www.oaklandcemetery.com/projects/african-american-grounds/ .
Genealogist/ historian D. L. Henderson leads tour during Juneteenth at
Oakland Cemetery celebration. Sean Powers/ On Second Thought–GPB
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Macon native Simri Rose, for whom Rose Hill
Cemetery is named, established the cemetery in
1840. Rose
set aside
property for
slave-holders
to purchase
to bury their
enslaved
household
servants; this
roughly
ten-acre
section is
today known
as Oak Ridge Cemetery. The city officially named Oak
Ridge Cemetery on September 12, 1851, almost ten years
before the beginning of the Civil War. The City of Macon
continues to own Rose Hill Cemetery which includes the
Oak Ridge section.
Because this cemetery is publicly owned, the sexton was
required to make reports to the governing body. Early on,
the clerk recording these reports designated the race of those
buried by a “W” for white and a “B” or the word “colored”
for African Americans. Later, historian estimate that the
clerk might not have always designated race but did list
the location of the burial. Those buried in Oak Ridge were
typically African American. These municipal records set
Oak Ridge apart from contemporary slave burial grounds in
other parts of Georgia; while other cemeteries have burial
records of enslaved people, their records do not appear
in the official government records, as Oak Ridge’s burial
records do.
The Macon City Council records show the number of burials
in Oak Ridge during most of the antebellum and Civil
War years, but the names of these individuals are almost
nonexistent. Of the 918 known burials in Oak Ridge from
1841 to 1865, only two names are recorded. “A free man of
color Hannibal Roe” was buried in 1846 and “Essex,” who
was mentioned because his body was allegedly disinterred
by local medical students in 1858. Although Hannibal
Roe’s burial in Oak Ridge makes it clear not all buried were
enslaved people, historians know from population statics for
Macon that most black persons during that period (1841 to
1865) were enslaved.
It is believed there were at least one thousand unmarked
enslaved people buried in Oak Ridge.
Kim Campbell, Preservation and Education Coordinator
Historic Macon Foundation
Those buried in Oak Ridge deserve their proper recognition,
including their role in helping shape Macon. We talk a lot about
the builders of Macon, but those aren’t the people whose hands
built Macon. Mapping Oak Ridge offers a great opportunity to
tell the stories of the slaves that built the city. Oak Ridge was
and still is a place where visitors reflect and take in the beauty
of the land. Going there now you only see half the story. You
see the soldiers buried there but don’t see why the Oak Ridge
section matters.
In September the Macon-Bibb County officials approved an
ordinance for the Historic Macon Foundation to install three
interpretive panels in the Oak Ridge section of the cemetery.
Macon-Bibb Commissioner Elaine Lucas (District 3) told
the Macon Telegraph the educational panels planned for the
Oak Ridge section can also serve as a tool not only to teach
a fuller history but help us moving forward as a city, a state,
and a nation. “I just think that this opens up avenues for more
discussion, more of groups working together to make sure
that all history is a part of what we carry forward into the
future. And [as] we study and that we pay tribute to Rose Hill
and others cemeteries, we need to pay tribute as well to the
memories of those folks who are buried in Oak Ridge ” said
Mrs. Lucas
Historic Macon Foundation is preparing the three interpretive
panels approved by the City and funded by a Downtown
Challenge grant from the Community Foundation of Central
Georgia. According to Kim Campbell, educational panels will
be installed by February 2017.
According to experts in the field of cemetery mapping, the
situation of locating unmarked burials is not uncommon as
many other cemeteries across the nation struggle with such
discrepancies that occurred as ownership and management of
burial grounds changed over the years.
Entrance to Oak Ridge section of Rose Hill Cemetery.
Historic Macon Foundation
Rose Hill to mark burials of enslaved African in its Oak
Ridge section. Historic Macon Foundation
Revelation Through Restoration: Macon Cemetery Signage
Opens Dialogue on African American Contributions
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Remembering Cynthia Nicholson Hayes:
Advocate, Entrepreneur, Humanitarian, Preservationist
Jeanne Cyriaque, Cultural Heritage Specialist
and GAAHPN Steering Committee member
 Photo courtesy of Terry Hayes
Cynthia Hayes entered the Georgia African
American Historic Preservation Network
(GAAHPN) when she and her husband
Terry Hayes attended the first GAAHPN
conference in Augusta in 2004. They both
joined our efforts to save African American
places in Georgia and became members
of the GAAHPN Steering Committee.
Cynthia subsequently supported GAAHPN
conferences in Brunswick (2006) and the
Bethlehem community in Augusta (2007).
Cynthia supported GAAHPN activities throughout
the South and traveled to Memphis in 2006 for a conference with
members of the African American Preservation Alliance. In Georgia
she was always an organizer and leader in educating farmers about
organics and was the catalyst for involving the Southeast Farmer
African American Farmers Organic Network (SAAFON) in the
Forsyth Park Farmers Market in Savannah.
As Cynthia’s love and passion for African American farmers and
retention of their land emerged, she was a key contact to linking
the network to potential African American Centennial Farms. In
particular, she introduced us to farmers in Bulloch and Glynn
Counties, making certain that their family stories were covered in
Reflections.
Whenever community gardens were located at historic sites, Cynthia
would be the first point of contact, navigating them through the
various sources of funding with USDA and other agricultural
agencies. She was there in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, where she
and SAAFON co-founder Owusu Bandele helped the River Road
African American Museum establish a garden near the Central
Agricultural Rosenwald School on their site. She always recognized
the importance of training and organized workshops for SAAFON at
Florida A&M University in Tallahassee and in Louisville, Kentucky.

Cynthia was also an advocate for diversity in historic preservation
and participated in the National Trust for Historic Preservation
annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky, where the Southeast
Regional African American Preservation Alliance recognized
her and other local heroes. In Savannah Cynthia represented her
neighborhood on the Historic Neighborhood Council, a coalition of
neighbors seeking local protection for those National Register-listed
neighborhoods outside of the landmark district. Soon after moving
to Savannah in 2000, Cynthia connected with Historic Savannah
Foundation’s neighborhood outreach program and became one of
its strongest supporters, often hosting meetings in her home.
In Georgia she helped organize Thomasville
Conversations, the opening reception of the
statewide historic preservation conference
for GAAHPN, and attended the statewide
preservation conference in Athens, where
she advocated for more programs featuring
African American historic sites.
When the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage
Corridor Commission was established by
the U.S. Congress in 2007, Cynthia Hayes
became a leading supporter. She was
present at many public meetings in Georgia, making
certain that these voices were heard in McIntosh County, Sapelo
Island, Savannah, and St. Simons Island.
Cynthia and her husband Terry Hayes shared a love of the
Caribbean, especially Jamaica, and remained connected with the
Caribbean. While there, Cynthia worked with farmers to produce
value-added products and organized a summer camp for US innercity boys to experience life and culture in a different part of the
African Diaspora. Cynthia expanded the SAAFON organization to
include sites in the West Indies. She personally led efforts to bring
needed school supplies to children in the Dominican Republic,
an example of her continued activism. Cynthia was a founding
member of several nonprofit organizations including Women in
Rural Development, the So-Green Network, and most recently, the
National Black Food and Justice Alliance.
Cynthia rarely sought the spotlight but instead preferred to work
behind the scenes and in direct contact with the farmers and
neighbors she served. For this commitment and leadership, she
received several prestigious awards, including the James Beard
Award and the Southern Foodways Alliance John Egerton Award.
Throughout her career, Cynthia Hayes approached her work with
focus, determination and selflessness, key attributes of a great leader.
She always sought new funding sources for SAAFON, connecting
them with food partners on the national and international scene.
Whether simply hosting a meeting in her home, advocating for the
GAAHPN family or planning strategies to enhance SAAFON, the
world is a better place due to Cynthia Hayes.
If we stand tall, it is because we stand on the shoulders of many
ancestors. – African proverb.
 
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Willow Hill Griot Honored by Governor
Alvin D. Jackson, MD of
the Willow Hill Heritage
and Renaissance Center
(WHHRC) of Bulloch
County receives the 2016
Governor’s Award for Arts and
Humanities. Dr Jackson and
WHHRC saved the historic
Willow School established by
freed Africans, and continues
to advocate for other important resources in Bulloch
County.
The Willow Hill Heritage/Renaissance Center
4235 Willow Hill Road | Portal, Georgia 30450
(912) 865-7154 | www.willowhillheritage.org
 Photo credit: Dr. Jackson/ WHHRC
Announcements
Harrington School Receives Challenge Grant
 The WatsonBrown Foundation
awards the Friends
of Harrington School
(FOHS) a $25,000
Challenge grants to
support current efforts
to revitalize the 1920s
school house.
 FOHS and the St. Simons African American Heritage
Coalition set sights on interior rehabilitation next.
Friends of Harrington School
P.O. Box 20496 | St. Simons Island, GA 31522
St. Simons AA Heritage Coalition
P.O. Box 20145 | St. Simons Island, GA 31522
http://www.ssiheritagecoalition.org/

 Photo credit: Georgia HPD/J. Cyriaque
Jack Hadley Museum Seeks Museum Educator
As it marks its 10th anniversary
this year, the Jack Hadley
Black History Museum in
Thomasville seeks a qualified,
fulltime Museum Educator
to develop programs from the
museum’s education plan and
curriculum.
The Hadley museum founder and president Jack Hadley
is managing the search which ends December 1st
(jackhadleyblackhistorymuseum@rose.net ).
Jack Hadley Black History Museum
214 Alexander St. |Thomasville, Georgia 31792
(229) 226-5029 | www.jackhadleyblackhistorymuseum.com
Photo credit: Jack Hadley Black History Museum
Auburn Avenue Library Exhibit Explores
 Impact of the American Slave Cabin
The photographic exhibit,
Spaital Trauma and the
American Slave Cabin:
Intersection of Memory,
History and the Architecture
 of Enslavement, is on view
thought December 4th
at the Auburan Avenue
Research Library.
 Photographer Curtis Graves compels the viewer to
 experience these spaces from the lived visual prespective
 of the enslaved. This exhibit is offered in collaboration
 with the Hammonds House Museum.
Auburn Avenue Research Library
on African American Culture and History
101 Auburn Avenue NE | Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 613-4010 | www.afpls.org/aarl
 Photo credit: Georgia HPD/M. Jest
The Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network (GAAHPN)
was established in January 1989. It is composed of representatives from
neighborhood organizations and preservation groups. GAAHPN was formed in
response to a growing interest in preserving the cultural and built diversity of Georgia’s
African American heritage. This interest has translated into a number of efforts
which emphasize greater recognition of African American culture and contributions
to Georgia’s history. The GAAHPN Steering Committee plans and implements ways
to develop programs that will foster heritage education, neighborhood revitalization,
and support community and economic development.
The Network is an informal group of over 3,000 people who have an interest in
preservation. Members are briefed on the status of current and planned projects and
are encouraged to offer ideas, comments and suggestions. The meetings provide
an opportunity to share and learn from the preservation experience of others and to
receive technical information through workshops. Members receive a newsletter,
Reflections, produced by the Network. Visit the Historic Preservation Division
website at www.georgiashpo.org. Preservation information and previous issues of
Reflections are available online. Membership in the Network is free and open to all.
About GAAHPN
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funds from the National Park Service, Department of
the Interior, through the Historic Preservation Division,
Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The contents
and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or
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the mention of trade names, commercial products or
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,
national origin, or disability in its federally assisted
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more information, write to: Office for Equal Opportunity,
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Published quarterly by the
Historic Preservation Division
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Dr. David Crass, Division Director
Melissa Jest, Editor
Jeanne Cyriaque
Lillian Davis
Dr. Gerald C. & Barbara Golden
Terry Hayes
Richard Laub
Kenneth Rollins
Isaac Johnson, Chair
Velmon Allen, Vice-Chair
Steering Committee
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Melissa Jest
African American
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Since its first issue appeared in December 2000, Reflections has documented
hundreds of Georgia’s African American historic resources. Now all of these
articles are available on the Historic Preservation Division website
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cemeteries, churches, districts, farms, lodges, medical, people, places,
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About Reflections
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Programs Assistant
Voice 770/389-7879
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