Primus E. King helped African-Americans gain the right to vote in Georgia by challenging the constitutionality of the State Democratic Party's refusal to allow him to vote in 1940. As part of their "Constitution and Me" program series, join the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries for a lecture exploring important details of the King decision using primary […]
As part of their "Constitution and Me" program series, join the Chattahoochee Valley Libraries for a screening of the film Willie Velasquez: Your Voice is Your Vote. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
Join the Coastal Heritage Society for their 2024 Revolutionary Perspectives Lecture Series. This virtual series will feature humanities scholars from diverse areas of focus to provide a broad definition and understanding of how communities create history as well as to examine best practices in sharing history with modern audiences. Scholars include Dr. Deborah Johnson-Simon, a […]
Join the Historic Macon Foundation for a presentation by Neesha Powell-Ingabire (she/they), a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, and community and cultural organizer. She reports on the justice movements of the Black, trans, queer, and Southern communities to which she belongs and writes essays to recover her own history and the histories of her ancestors […]
The Decatur Book Festival returns to Decatur Square October 4-5, 2024. The event will feature author talks, readings, panel discussions, children's sessions, a vendor fair, and a keynote presentation by Joyce Carol Oates. All sessions are free to the public. This event is sponsored by Georgia Humanities.
During the 1990s, the Chattahoochee River was named the most endangered urban river in North America by American Rivers, a key conservation group. "Saving the Chattahoochee," a new documentary by filmmaker Hal Jacobs, tells the story of the dedicated Atlanta women who fought to revive and protect the Chattahoochee River and its watershed. The screening […]
August University professors Stacey Thompson, David Bulla, Hubert Van Tull, and James Garvey will discuss representations of the Holocaust in media and museums and the experiences of local veterans who liberated the concentration camps. This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
Presented by Wanda Patterson, “Spring Place & Oochgeelogy” tells the dramatic story of the Moravians, the first missionary group to be permitted to establish schools and mission stations in the Cherokee Nation. The lecture will focus on the origins and development of Moravian missionary activity in the Cherokee Nation, highlighting the patterns of cross-cultural exchange […]
The Funk Heritage Center opens a new temporary exhibit, We Neighbors Would Meet Together, interpreting the history and influence of the Oothcaloga Moravian Mission (near present-day Calhoun) on Cherokee integration, nationalism, and sovereignty in the nineteenth century. The exhibit is also designed to raise public awareness and generate support for the Oothcaloga Mission God’s Acre […]
Members of the team that developed the displays for the Augusta Jewish Museum Education Center will present about the history of the museum and the importance of preserving these buildings for the entire community. Speakers include Dr. Jackie Cohen, Dr. Michael Cohen, and Dr. Judith Giri. They will give an overview of each of the […]
