Category Archives: Emmaus House

Photographer Boyd Lewis

Gene Ferguson and Peoplestown children, photograph courtesy of Boyd Lewis and Atlanta History CenterThe Peoplestown Project website features the photography of Atlanta journalist Boyd Lewis in its banner. The photos shown here — of Peoplestown, its activists, and the neighborhood’s families — were taken while Lewis worked for the black newspapers, The Atlanta Voice and the Atlanta Inquirer in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more »

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This Is Trey’s Story

Trey created this digital biography at the Emmaus House Middle Grades Arts Camp during the summer of 2010. Read more »

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David Morath

I was very much a jack-of-all-trades. The Poverty Rights Office was just getting under way with Muriel Lokey at that time. But a lot of the kind of work that they did, we did on a walk-in basis: somebody’s electricity was cut off, somebody needed to apply for welfare or get Social Security benefits, somebody was having a housing issue, all sorts of things like that, and we’d just go out and do. Read more »

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Waveland Drownings

The following story appeared in the Sun Herald.

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MyPLACE

From June to December 2010, the MyPLACE segment of The Peoplestown Project worked with neighborhood middle grades and high school students to use visual and performing arts to explore overlapping themes of self, community, and civic life. At Emmaus Houses’s Summer Arts Camp, then-KSU graduate student Gwendelyn Ballew worked with artist-campers to create and perform stories relevant to and reflective of their lives. With Assistant Professor of English Jennifer Dail, the artist-campers crafted personal narratives using digital story techniques. And with photographer Mary Stuart Hall, the artist-campers studied composition and used digital photography to document and interpret personally-significant places. Read more »

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Identify This Photograph

Tell us about this photograph! Who is in this photo? Read more »

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Identify This Photograph

Tell us about this photograph! Where was this picture taken? Who is in the photo? Read more »

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Mimi (Sister Marie) Bodell

One memory I have is John Armstrong, a senior at St. Pius X [Catholic] High School, shoveling debris from the second floor in the main house, shoveling it over the banister down to the first floor. I heard him saying to another teenager, “I really think this is what religion is all about.” Read more »

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Tom and Debbie Shields Erdmanczyk

Emmaus House filled that gap….we had buses going from Thomasville to McKlatchy Elementary from Leila Valley and Inglewood projects to Morris Brandon. Read more »

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How many green stamps does it take Ginny Tuttle to buy a bus?

And Ginny Tuttle—her father was Judge Tuttle in Atlanta—was a volunteer who collected 3,000 books of green stamps so we could buy a bus. We bought one of those big Bluebird yellow new buses. One of the first trips the bus took was to Reidsville Prison. Read more »

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