Comments on: MAK District Lecture Tomorrow at Noon http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/03/23/mak-district-lecture-tomorrow-at-noon/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:25:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Scott http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/03/23/mak-district-lecture-tomorrow-at-noon/#comment-7535 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:35:23 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-7535 Indeed. If you were white and fleeing, they’d buy your home. Once they owned it, I’ll give you one guess as to the type o’ folk they end up renting it to…

]]> By: Decatur Metro http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/03/23/mak-district-lecture-tomorrow-at-noon/#comment-7534 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:25:46 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-7534 Are you referencing Agnes Scott’s purchase of every single home in its immediate and not-so immediate vicinity?

Pretty amazing how different things were back then, huh?

]]> By: Scott http://www.decaturmetro.com/2009/03/23/mak-district-lecture-tomorrow-at-noon/#comment-7533 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:08:02 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-7533 I went to this and it was quite good. Most interesting was the overview of how Agnes Scott responded to white flight in the surrounding neighborhood during civil rights. Not what you would expect from the highly-liberal arts institution it is today. Weird times, for sure, where attempts to “stabilize” neighborhoods, when viewed historically, seem downright nefarious.

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