Author Archives: LeeAnn Lands
Silva Griggs Britt
Oh, I love Peoplestown. I love seeing the ladybugs that I don’t see anymore, and the butterflies, and the streets, and all the kids out in the streets playing—just jumping rope, hopscotch, mother may I, Simon says—and the girls dancing, you know. Read more
Photographing MyPLACE
With the children enrolled in Emmaus Houses’s Summer Arts Camp, we studied visual composition and used digital photography to document and interpret our lives and the Peoplestown community. Read more
Photographer Boyd Lewis
The 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
Identify this photograph
Tell us about this photograph! Who is in the picture? Photograph courtesy of Boyd Lewis and the Atlanta History Center. Read more
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
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
Waveland Drownings
The following story appeared in the Sun Herald.
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
Identify This Photograph
Tell us about this photograph! Who is in this photo? Read more
Identify This Photograph
Tell us about this photograph! Where was this picture taken? Who is in the photo? Read more
