Editorial and printing press office for the Atlanta Daily World, the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia. Two black men, one of them possibly a member of the Scott family, talking in front of Atlanta Daily World editorial and printing office (210 Auburn Avenue Atlanta, GA ) in the Sweet Auburn district. Above the door a sign reads “Atlanta Daily World “News while it is news””. A woman listens to the two men talking. Young African-American man nodding. Close up of “Atlanta Daily World” signage.
Black-owned businesses in Sweet Auburn district in Atlanta, Georgia. A car driven by African American men drives away. Mutual Federal Savings Bank (Mutual Federal Savings Bank 205 Auburn Ave N E Atlanta, GA 30303) in Auburn Avenue. Sign reads “Mutual Federal Savings”. Two black women walk past the Silvermoon Barber Shop (202 Auburn Ave. NE) An African-American barber inside Silvermoon barber shop looking through window. A man holding a tripod on the street as people walk by. An African-American man holding a child. Menu board for The Pub Grill, a black owned diner on Auburn Avenue. Commercial buildings such as J. T. Bickers Realty Co., The Pub Grill, George's Shoe Shop and The Casino club on Auburn Avenue (171-191 Auburn Ave ) A 1959 Cadillac Sedan DeVille parked next to The Casino club at 171 Auburn, where the marquee reads “Teenage Dance Wed and Fri”. A black man wearing a cap pays a parking meter. An African American man wearing glasses and fedora. Young African American barbers from the Silvermoon Barber shop talking with customer outside.
A poor African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Two African-American girls walk arm-in-arm on a dirt road in an Atlanta neighborhood. A black man and two boys walk past a house. Three black girls doing homework outside on the steps of a house. Black girls talking with each other. A black girl with head resting on hand with pencil. A black man resting on a porch with a heavy black woman wearing a headscarf and bandaged hand speaks with the man on the porch.
Inside the Citizens Trust Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, the first African American-owned bank to join the Federal Reserve bank. This is likely the Westside Office (Westside Branch 965 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314). Paintings depicting major Atlanta buildings hang behind bank tellers. Lorimer D. Milton, Citizens Trust's president and chief executive officer, is interviewed.
African Americans living in working class neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. A wooden clapboard in a poor neighborhood. An African-American girl looks through front door. Closer view of girl talking, her mother briefly walks in the background. African-American woman rubs her face and holds a cigarette. Another woman joins in. Woman talking. An African-American man wearing a "newsboy" cap lights and smokes a cigarette outside on the street.
African-American students walking outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia (45 Whitehouse Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African-American schoolgirls in swing skirts and dresses walking on campus. Some High School girls are holding books. Black High School boys and girls pose together casually in front of the camera. Black male students, some wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes, form a crowd. More teenagers move in a line, some playfully push each other and laugh. A group of Black schoolgirls walking home together. Booker T. Washington Lifting the Veil of Ignorance statue (1927 replica of an original which stands at Tuskegee University) in front of Booker T. Washington High School. Satuue inscription reads “Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry”.
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