Sources

Check out the links below to take a closer look at the resources that helped form this exhibit.

Development of Washington Park

• "Heman E. Perry and Black Enterprise in Atlanta, 1908-1925", by Alexa Henderson
• "The Largest Negro Commercial Enterprise in the World," by Eric D. Walrond
• "As Atlanta seeks rebirth, city must overcome segregationist past cited in new book", by David Pendered
• "The Racial Origins of Zoning in American Cities," by Christopher Silver
• "Collective Action, White Flight, and the Origins of Racial Zoning Laws," by Werner Troesken and Randall Walsh
• Atlanta Zoning Maps
• "Great Atlanta Fire of 1917," by Gino Nuzzolillo
• The Atlanta Journal
• The Atlanta Constitution

Historic Cultural Spaces

• Description of the Ashby Street School
• "'A theater of our own': The Ashby brought movies to a Black audience," by Bo Emerson and J.D. Capelouto
• Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties, by Herman "Skip" Mason, Jr.
• Contested Waters : A Social History of Swimming Pools in America, by Jeff Wilse
• Atlanta Daily World

Notable Residents

• "Hot Combs and Hair Grease: African-American Beauticians and Political Activism in Atlanta, 1930-1965" by Sylvia Marshall
• "Complex Relations: An African-American Attorney Navigates Jim Crow Atlanta," by David Kenneth Pye
• Politics, Civil Rights, and Law in Black Atlanta, 1870-1970, by Herman "Skip" Mason, Jr.
• Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, by Sundiata Djata

Washington Park Today

• Information on the Washington Park Historic District
  • The information included in the district's application for the National Register of Historic Places was a huge help with constructing the narrative for this exhibit.
• The Conservancy at Historic Washington Park