Format: Audio Recording

Downtown Folk Tour
Recorded stories from Dr. John Burrison, Folklorist and Professor of English at Georgia State University, who has collected stories of folk music, pottery, legends, medicine, and religious practices in Atlanta. This walking tour will guide you through folk sites downtown, specifically around locations which now make up today’s GSU campus. This project was developed under […]

Georgia Government Documentation Project
The Georgia Government Documentation Project (GGDP) documents the state’s political heritage through oral history interviews and collections of associated papers. The GGDP collection includes more than 250 interviews with former governors, legislators, women in politics, African American political activists and leaders, journalists, and numerous other public figures. In addition to the interviews generated by the […]

A History of Radio Broadcasting in Georgia: Exploring Georgia Radio
Documents the history of radio broadcasting in the state of Georgia over a 50 year period from its inception in 1922 through the 1970s, including Atlanta stations WAOK, WAGA, WQXI, WSB, WKLS, and others. Content and materials included in this exhibit are from the Radio Broadcasting Collections housed in the GSU Library Special Collections and […]