Todd Michney
@toddmichney
Urban historian and author, #SurrogateSuburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in #Cleveland, 1900-1980 (UNC Press 2017); professor @GeorgiaTech
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Great job Georgia Tech Library and Clough Commons in mounting this window into the history of #ATL's Fulton Bag &Cotton Mill, whose records we hold in the GT Archives. On display thru March 2024; more info: library.gatech.edu/news/now-throu…
"Across Southern CA, freeways that paved over Black and Latino neighborhoods—such as the 5, 10 & 110—were completed, while those proposed to cross whiter, more affluent areas were stopped," writes Los Angeles Times. The 110, seen here, cut through South LA, displacing tens of thousands.
Dear friends -- the URichmond DSL team is preparing the new Mapping Inequality site for launch this fall, but there is still time to write an introductory essay on cities. We have Queens and the Bronx still available, Indianapolis, and several smaller cities! docs.google.com/document/d/1Eh…
TUESDAY (10/17): Victor Luckerson at Georgia Tech on his book about Tulsa's Greenwood aka #BlackWallStreet before and after the 1921 Race Massacre; on panel with me & @[email protected], sponsored by Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business's DEI book club, Net Impact chapter, Sustainable Business. Signup: scheller.gatech.edu/events/2023/bu…
.Robert Nelson previewing the new Mapping Inequality interface on a #UHA2023 panel about mapping & #reparations w/ Njaimeh Nije, Rev. Dale B. Snyder, LaDale Winling, Brent Cebul & Thomas Sugrue
Black entrepreneur Charles E. Davis built around 500 homes to meet the needs of Pittsburgh’s Black middle class! During a time of rampant discrimination, Charles’ developments quickly turned into thriving Black communities. His work is still felt today! nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/ch…
Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line aaihs.org/movie-theaters… via Black Perspectives
Join us Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology today (2/12) at 4pm to hear Prof. Tyina Steptoe talk on "The Sound of Migration: Black Music and Western Movement," virtually or in person: hsoc.gatech.edu/speaker-series
Great piece by Roberta Gratz on the making of #PonchartrainPark in #NewOrleans. #Redlining #BlackMiddleClass #GIBill #Edith&EdgarStern #TerenceBlanchard #GwenThompkins Wendell Pierce bit.ly/3IqtUcf
Join us Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology tomorrow (4/16) at 11am to hear Matthew Guariglia talk on "Race, Technology, and the Origins of Modern Policing," virtually or in person: hsoc.gatech.edu/events/speaker…