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@ Atlanta History Center

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"Looking southwest on Peters Street. The upstairs of this building was loaded with negroes in each room and they were congested about like bees in a hive."View of a store fronts on Peters Street in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia that had housed families in the upper floor before the construction of John Hope Homes.street scenes; social conditions; substandard housing; public housing; streetcar; electric trolleyJohn Hope Homes was a public housing development built in 1940 in the West End area of Atlanta, Georgia next to University Homes. The units were built for African American residents.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Atlanta
  3. Atlanta (Ga.)
  4. Atlanta Housing Authority
  5. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  6. Dwellings
  7. Electric Lines
  8. Georgia
  9. Hope, John, 1868 1936
  10. Housing
  11. John Hope Homes (Atlanta, Ga.)
  12. Overhead Electric Lines
  13. Poles And Towers
  14. Poverty
  15. Signs And Signboards
  16. Slums
  17. Stores, Retail
  18. Streets

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