- Collection:
- Planning Atlanta - A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s
- Title:
- Harold Carter oral history interview, 2014 November 24
- Creator:
- Carter, Harold
- Contributor to Resource:
- Muhammad, Nafeesa
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2014-11-24
- Subject:
- Urban renewal
Community development, Urban
African Americans--Social conditions - 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:
- Harold Carter was born September 13, 1945 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and is the oldest of eleven siblings. He has five children and is not currently married. He has resided in both Buttermilk Bottoms and Vine City. Although he does not currently live in Buttermilk Bottoms, he has been working as a facilities manager for Wingate for 45 years. He grew up on 575 East Avenue up until high school, but moved in the late 50s. Carter did not go to college but attended technical school at Atlanta Area Technical College.
Carter has experiences growing up in Buttermilk Bottoms and Vine City, both sites home to African Americans from poor socioeconomic backgrounds. Carter maintains that Buttermilk Bottoms got its name from the cornbread and buttermilk dish many people ate during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 70s, Carter witnessed the construction of Freedom Parkway. He has seen Buttermilk Bottoms go from a poor neighborhood to a bustling business sector in the heart of Atlanta. Some blacks left Buttermilk Bottoms as segregation restrictions lifted in the 60s. Others simply could not keep up their properties with the changing economy. Vine City, according to Carter was composed of dirt roads and tenements where multiple families lived during the 40s and 50s. Carter does not see much change in Vine City from its condition thirty or more years ago, as it is still underdeveloped and a primary site for indigent African Americans. But with major investors claiming a stake in Atlanta, Carter believes that a decade from now, Vine City will be better.
Locations: Fulton County (Ga.) -- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Vine City - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PlanATL/id/2823
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/PlanATL:2823/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: 00:35:34, Transcript: 31 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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