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Westside Documentation Project

Oral histories of three predominantly African American Savannah neighborhoods, Hudson Hill, West Savannah, and Woodville.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
2008

Location
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983

Medium
oral histories (literary works)
photographs
sound recordings
moving images

Type
Moving Image
Still Image
Sound
Text

Description
The Westside Documentation Project includes materials gathered by historians Dr. Martha Keber and Dr. Charles Elmore in preparation for a written history of three westside Savannah neighborhoods (Hudson Hill, West Savannah, and Woodville) for the City of Savannah, Department of Cultural Affairs, and the resulting final products of that research: Keber's Low Land and the High Road: Life and Community in Hudson Hill, West Savannah, and Woodville Neighborhoods, (City of Savannah, Department of Cultural Affairs, 2008); and "Life and Community in Hudson Hill, West Savannah and Woodville Neighborhoods" (website), available at http://savannahneighborhoods.org. The research focuses primarily on the period from 1900 to 2006 in these predominantly African American neighborhoods. Topics represented include employment, schools, housing, churches, leisure activities, and the civil rights movement.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/gsg_wdpoh

Language
eng

Holding Institution
City of Savannah Municipal Archives

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