Aiken Lecture featuring Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar in conversation with Ernie Suggs

Online ticket sales close at 5pm EST on the day of the event. Tickets will be available at the door prior to the event start time. Atlanta History Center is thrilled to welcome historian Jeffrey Ogbar for a fascinating discussion of Atlanta’s influential Black history. This event will focus on the pivotal period that set Atlanta up to become the heartbeat of the Civil Rights Movement: post-Reconstruction until the 1940s. The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca. Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the K...