Georgia’s Response to Desegregation

FAIN: ZED-283329-22

Georgia Board of Regents (Atlanta, GA 30334-9056)
Christopher M. Davidson (Project Director: May 2021 to present)
Penelope Cliff (Co Project Director: December 2021 to present)

Retention of five staff positions and creation of two graduate assistant positions to support classes and public programs on Georgia’s civil rights history.

The state of Georgia's response to desegregation (1954-1965) is an underutilized area of the Civil Rights Movement. In this project, the Georgia Archives plans to share this important history through a series of classes and presentations. The interactive, in-house classes will be created for college and university students and professors to focus on Georgia’s response to desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education (1954-1965) using state documents and manuscript collections housed at the Georgia Archives. The classes will be combined with the viewing of original documents. The project will culminate in several presentations that will be shorter versions of the classes designed for the public as well as accompanying exhibits of original records. There will be a focus on encouraging inclusion of the underserved communities in the area of Morrow, GA.