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Atlanta Pride is celebrating 50 years of support, aid, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride in 2021. In 2014, Christylynn Rosser (center) and Ayeisha Quinones helped carry the rainbow flag down Peachtree Street. AJC / 2014
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Flashback Photos: Atlanta's Gay Pride through the years
Elroy and Sophia Williams hold a photo of Sophia's grandparents, who were born in slavery but accumulated 1,200 acres of farmland and contributed two acres for a Rosenwald school. They are standing in that structure, the former Hopewell School in Bastrop County, Texas, which Elroy is working to preserve Photo: Andrew Feiler
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PHOTOS: Atlanta photographer documents Rosenwald Schools
When it opened in June 1949, Atlanta's Starlight Drive-In had a 900-car capacity and was hailed as the city's premier new outdoor theater. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHS / GSU
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Flashback Photos: The golden days of Atlanta's drive-in theaters
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Greenbriar Mall opened to great fanfare in Sept. 1965. Touted as the linchpin for future economic growth on Atlanta's southwest side, the mall was envisioned as being more than just another shopping center. FLOYD JILLSON / AJC FILE
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AJC Deja News: Greenbriar envisioned as more than just another mall (1964)
Original caption: "A famous landmark At Brunswick: Beneath this spreading tree, now known as 'Lanier's Oak,' Sidney Lanier, beloved poet of the South, received his inspiration for the immortal poem, 'The Marshes of Glynn.'" WALTER FRANK WINN / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES
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Flashback Photos: Scenes from Middle and South Georgia, Pt. 1
Academy Theatre, in the Erlanger Theater building (583 Peachtree Street), Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 1981. George A. Clark / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Archives
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Flashback Photos: 40 years ago in Georgia, 1981, Part One
The Centers for Disease Control, founded here in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, originally focused on malaria control but now handles a wide range of public health issues. In this 1988 photo, Bertha Farrah, left, and Gilda Perez, medical technologists at the CDC virology lab, work in the maximum containment lab for the most dangerous viruses. The pair work wearing 15-pound laminated plastic suits connected to oxygen lines. RICH ADDICKS / AJC FILE
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Flashback Photos: The CDC in Atlanta
Central of Georgia billboard next to Terminal Station in May 1946.
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A group of girls dash toward the entrance of Girls High School in 1946, as the cars line up on their specially built tracks in the yard behind the building. Busing across town was necessary for girls and boys before community high schools were created in 1947.
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Flashback Photos: 1946, 75 years ago in Georgia, Part One
1960 -- Original caption: "Movie censor defends her role. Mrs. Christine Gilliam reviews 'Never on Sunday' with Library Board members." SPECIAL TO AJC
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Flashback Photos: When Atlanta had a film censor
The Chattahoochee Raft Race brought out many strange items to float down the river, as seen here on May 22, 1971. These crafts were banned in later races because many were abandoned in the river. (Joe McTyre/AJC staff)
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Flashback Photos: More 1971, 50 years ago in Georgia
Traffic on GA. 54 in Forest Park in 1971. (BUD SKINNER/AJC staff) 1971
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Flashback Photos: 50 years ago in Georgia, 1971, Part One
1969 -- The Lenox Square Theatre marquee carries a message to voters. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU
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Flashback Photos: A look back at voting in Georgia
In October 1974, newly-elected Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson spent a much-publicized weekend staying at the Bankhead Courts public housing complex on the city's westside. HUGH STOVALL / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES
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Flashback Photos: A look back at Bankhead Courts
Atlanta's federal penitentiary, among the original three authorized nationwide through the Three Prisons Act of 1891, remains one of the city's unique historical landmarks. The other two prisons established were USP Leavenworth (Kan.) and USP McNeil Island (Wash.). USP Atlanta remains in operation as a medium security location. This is the old penitentiary entrance, photographed in 1910. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN COLLECTION / LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Flashback Photos: Inside the Atlanta US Penitentiary
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