African Americans in Atlanta:
Community Building in a New South City
Carole Merritt, The Herndon Home
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Recommended Resources:
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of the Business, Religious, and Educational Side of the Negro in Atlanta,
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Henderson, Alexa. Atlanta Life Insurance Company: Guardian of Black Economic
Dignity. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.
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Blacks, 1865-1873. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Kuhn, Clifford M., Harlon E. Joye, and E. Bernard West. Living Atlanta:
An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
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Merritt, Carole. The Herndons: An Atlanta Family. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
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20 March 2004
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