- Collection:
- Planning Atlanta - A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s
- Title:
- Emory Searcy oral history interview, 2014 December 20
- Creator:
- Searcy, Emory
- Contributor to Resource:
- Williams, John
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2014-12-20
- Subject:
- Urban renewal
Clergy
Gentrification
Community development, Urban - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- transcripts
digital audio formats - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- application/pdf
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Emory Searcy, Jr. is the Associate Minister at Mt. Zion Second Baptist Church, the second oldest black Baptist church in Atlanta. He is the son of the late Dr. Emory Searcy, Sr., the longest-serving pastor of the church. Searcy grew up in and around Buttermilk Bottoms and attended the David T. Howard School. Over the past two decades, he has compiled interviews and recording of people who lived in Buttermilk Bottoms. He created a documentary about the neighborhood and hosts regular meetings of the Buttermilk Bottoms Reunion group.
From his office at Mt. Zion 2nd Baptist Church, Searcy recalls his experiences in Buttermilk Bottoms and the Old Fourth Ward area. He roots his discussion in the role of his church and other churches in community development. He talks about businesses and the self-sufficiency that existed in Buttermilk Bottoms and the Old Fourth Ward. His story ties the displacement of people from the Old Fourth Ward to development that has occurred since then. He discusses the exclusion of older residents in the newer developments in the community and the tension his has caused. He also discusses his life outside of the community and places his story into the larger narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.
Locations: Buttermilk Bottoms -- Fulton County (Ga.) -- Atlanta (Ga.) - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PlanATL/id/2819
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/PlanATL:2819/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- Audio: 00:37:39, Transcript: 22 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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