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[caption id="attachment_32519" align="alignleft" width="375" caption="Peachtree Arcade (Peachtree St. at Wall St.), 1957"][/caption] In 1917, at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I, the…

Continue reading Bazaar Education: Night School in the Peachtree Arcade

[caption id="attachment_34696" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Robert Rosser Johnson"][/caption] In the pantheon of distinguished GSU luminaries, the names of George Sparks (first president and recipient of the…

Continue reading Extinguished Luminaries of GSU: Robert R. Johnson

[caption id="attachment_31673" align="alignleft" width="373" caption="Walton Building (Walton Street, NW at Cone Street), 1973"][/caption] The Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce (now Georgia State…

Continue reading Blank Slate: GSU’s First Downtown Location

[caption id="attachment_34909" align="alignleft" width="131" caption="School logo in the 1940s"][/caption] It is well known that Georgia State University traces its origins to the Georgia School of…

Continue reading Little-Known and Unappreciated Facts about GSU History

[caption id="attachment_39236" align="alignleft" width="297" caption="Workers at Scripto (1953), Lane Brothers Photographic Collection, GSU Library"][/caption] Yesterday, Creative Loafing online posted a photo essay titled "Martin Luther…

Continue reading MLK’s Labor Legacy began in Atlanta