The Atlanta Massacre of 1906: History and Legacy

Join the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition for a virtual panel discussion on the Atlanta Massacre of 1906. The panelists will explore the social and political environment of the time, the four days of violence against Black Atlantans, and the legacy the massacre created.

FCRC is engaged in the Equal Justice Initiative's Historical Marker Project and is working towards installing a marker in remembrance of the, at least, 25 Black men and women lynched during the Atlanta Massacre of 1906.

The panel will be moderated by

Sonam Vashi

Sonam Vashi is an award-winning freelance journalist in Atlanta who's written for the New York Times, Atlanta Magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, and several others. She has spent much of the last year researching the events of the 1906 Atlanta Massacre with Emory University, where she is assisting Prof. Hank Klibanoff with instruction in a class centered on the subject. She usually writes about inequity in criminal justice, socioeconomics, or immigration in Atlanta, where she’s lived nearly all her life. Previously, she worked at CNN. With five others in 2020, she co-founded Canopy Atlanta, a nonprofit magazine that involves community members in the process of journalism.

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Forrest Evans

Forrest Evans is an Atlanta-based librarian and published poet, best known for her work in Pen+Brush, TQ Review: A Journal of Trans and Queer Voices, and The Apogee Journal. The avid DC Comic Book collector fights under education, and for gender equality.

Ayinde Summers

Ayinde Summers grew up in the green metro area of Atlanta GA developing a love for the great outdoors and fun education. In 1999 he began fostering a career in Experiential Education as a program director for NFL-Youth Education Town Atlanta where he designed his first program Georgia Explorers Camp. This project allowed students to navigate the geography and archeology of Georgia while engaging academic challenges . Ayinde began learning the science of experience learning as an apprentice with, industry pioneer Tony Coppage who has 34 years of facilitating and challenge program design. By 2004 Ayinde was designing and facilitating programs and workshops for corporations, educational institutions and student groups. He also formed Cultural Expeditions that develops service crews and give youth character development through skill development and cultural awareness using Kurt Hahn and Howard Gardner pedagogies. Through this company he has been able to discover social technologies that now encompass literacy, math, science and service learning. Ayinde Summers has also made presentations at the South Eastern Regional Board’s, High Schools That Work, International Dyslexia Conference and been recognize by the National Parks Service.

Dr. Maurice Hobson

Dr. Maurice Hobson is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Historian at Georgia State University. He earned the Ph.D. degree in History, focusing in African American History and 20th Century U.S. History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are grounded in the fields of African American history, 20th Century U.S. history, comparative labor, African American studies, oral history and ethnography, urban and rural history, political economy, and popular cultural studies. He is the author of award-winning book titled The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta with the University of North Carolina Press.