Thank you For addressing the issues that many people don't wanna face my grandmother feared for my life when I was a little boy of 5 or so she tried to explain to me about the people who hated me and that would kill me because of my color but I was too young to understand all that
What happened to her after "No Fear?" She has gone very quiet. Was she threatened by the government? Did she enter into an NDA as a part of her lawsuit? I thought Danny Glover was going to do a movie about what happened to her while she was at the EPA. Does anyone know what happened? There are other Black women who were of high status within the federal government who have gone quiet as if they were threatened. Another one is Sherry Peel Jackson - a former IRS Agent whose house was raided by Uncle Sam and she was imprisoned (where she nearly died) for "lecturing" that the IRS is an illegal entity and there is no basis to tax people. She proved it in court, but the government got to her. Now she is reduced to praising "Jesus" when BEFORE she was very outspoken. She has gone quiet.
This is so funny to me because they said the investors buy the houses and shoot the prices up and people walk away from the table with 40 to 50 for the houses in Candler Park back then. Well now the prices over there is 300,000 and higher. 300,000 is a small itty bitty house in that neighborhood. These people on this video probably would be 😮 😯 😳 shocked.
Very cool. Our family lived with my grandmother on Glendale Ave. just around the corner and we frequented McMichael's. My father grew up in that house on Glendale. My father and I both attended Mary Lin Elementary, and we both had the same 1st and 2nd grade teachers!
Bill Johnson after you attended Mary Lin what middle school and high school did the kids attend in that neighborhood. My grandparents lived on Hooper Avenue my mom went to Mary Lin Elementary. They moved after she got out of Elementary school. I’m just curious to what school did your dad and you attend after Elementary school. I would assume Middle School would have been Inman Middle and Bass High, but I’m not sure.
@@butterflyhippie we moved to Tucker and I then attended Tucker high school. There was no middle school back in the olden days - you did K-7 at one school and then 8-12 in high school
Robert, thank you for posting this film. what a treasure! My husband and I were newly weds when we renovated 375 Candler Park Drive in 1977. We only lived there a year, but were involved in the neighborhood association and appreciated the neighborliness of our older neighbors on the street. I would love to read your dissertation; is it online anywhere?
not that I am aware of, but it is in the library at Georgia State University. It is called:- Crisis in identity : an urban ethnography of neighborhood revitalization
This is so cool. I am Dirk Botterbusch, the current owner of Candler Park Market. I always wanted to see what Mr. McMichael looked like. I've heard many stories. Hopefully he'd be happy with the state of the store these days. The building is not much to look at anymore (and part of it fell into the storm water pipe that runs underneath the store back in the 90's) but we're trying our best to keep it going and a constructive part of the neighborhood. If anyone has any other pictures or information related to the history of the business district, please let me know.
Mr.McMichael was an important member of the community a very decent man who cared a lot for Candler Park, and while he didn't always appreciate the values of the people moving into the neighborhood, her certainly supported their efforts in revitalizing the community.
Where Candler Park was 20 years ago, the Historic West End (www.AtlantaWestEnd.com) is today. Seeing the changes take place is amazing. Like Candler Park, the Historic West End has lovely Craftsman Bungalows and excellent public amenities (such as the Beltline.) In contrast to this video’s account of gentrification, however, the Historic West End is notable for its racial balance. Yes, lower-income renters are being displaced, both by higher-income renters and by (lots of) new home buyers. But these incoming professionals are both black and white. So you find lots of IT professionals, academics, and young urban professionals generally, but they come in all colors. (Section 8 rentals, however, are pretty much gone.) Here are a few indicators of change. - There is a new business opportunity in *removing* burglar bars from windows. Crime is way, way down (safer than Midtown?) - There are few neglected houses. On many streets, do-it-yourself homeowners and investors have improved pretty much every house. - School options are growing (improved public schools, charter schools, and home-schooling groups.) Intown Atlanta is improving a lot these days. Candler Park changed decades ago, and the Historic West End is changing today.
I wish they had interviewed me for this video...as a 5 year old kindergarten student (1965), I still remember leaving my class during school time, walking home about 6 long long blocks straight to my home and of course no one knew that I had left the school. When I arrived at home and knocked on my front door, my mother answered and proceeded to "FAINT" when she saw me!!! I recently found the home and the school on the same mission last year. It brought back sooo many memories and great joy to know it's still there and thriving as well :) Mom said she knew at that time that I would most likely raise myself and be very confident in my life's decisions...lol
The building at 26:38 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0sQDDw7Wct4.htmlm38s looks like the building that is now La Fonda on McClendon Ave.
I thought the same thing but Scott is right. Ex-Gas Station @ Oakdale & McLendon: www.google.com/maps/@33.76478,-84.341754,3a,75y,18.71h,77.39t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s4HNeHwHyZB4Vdi4xfvi6Nw!2e0 LaFonda: www.google.com/maps/@33.764801,-84.333941,3a,75y,129.85h,70.21t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sCkpz0NxVMEv0OaaAwK3kjw!2e0
***** Back then it was probably called McMichael's, owned by the man of the same name who lived on McClendon Ave. I remember buying candy from that store as a kid before the Lee's bought it and built it up to eventually sell it as. I remember thinking how strange it was to see the Lee's oldest son beginning to offer specialty wines and beers. Ha! I remember when you could still buy a pickled pig's foot at the front counter! I haven't watched this video yet...a friend just shared it with me. And I just shared it with a bunch of the kids who grew up in 30307. Thanks Robert Fishman for making this documentary. I have been told that my father, Rocke Thompson, is interviewed at our house on Almeta Ave. I'm going to watch it tonight.
The school looks like a piece of junk so good that they knocked it down. They put up a placque so people can remember, what more do you want. Why should they keep up a crummy old school?
Be sure to watch until the end. Decatur City Commissioner Kecia Cunningham describes what an important property Beacon was to Decatur's African American citizens and then she thanks the deputy city manager for all he's done to preserve the property. It's astonishing that the city describes this as a rehabilitation. I'm reminded of the 1980s state of Florida "Thief of Time" campaign to stem pothunting at archaeological sites. Decatur not only stole its community's past but it also stole $10,000 from the federal treasury to accomplish it. At least parking the documentation here will provide future historians with the tools to deconstruct Decatur's efforts to eliminate all authentic traces of its historic African American community.
