- Collection:
- Planning Atlanta - A New City in the Making, 1930s-1990s
- Title:
- Nedra Lewis oral history interview, 2015 February 12
- Creator:
- Lewis, Nedra
- Contributor to Resource:
- Muhammad, Nafeesa
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2015-02-12
- Subject:
- Urban renewal
Housing
Community development, Urban
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development - 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:
- Nedra Lewis is originally from Nashville, Tennessee and has been a resident of Vine City since 1974. She has two children. None of her siblings reside in Georgia. Lewis attended Thelma Mitchell Academy and Washington High School. She did not attend college but did enter the Job Corps.
Lewis has witnessed the building of the Georgia Dome and posits that its construction contributed to Vine City's underdevelopment and recalls a few cases to prove her claim. She contends that elderly residents who were forced to move did not receive adequate compensation for the properties and after the dome was built, Vine City did not attract new residents. Like Lewis, many of her family and friends moved away but returned to Vine City because of the conveniences of the city. Yet she explains that her daughter-in-law was forced to relocate because the Department of Housing and Urban Development stopped assisting some clients. She states "If you don't own what you got you liable to get put out anytime."
Locations: Fulton County (Ga.) -- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Vine City - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/PlanATL/id/2829
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/PlanATL:2829/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: 00:25:39, Transcript: 25 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
