Curating the Ivan Allen Digital Archive
A multimodal research project by Dr. Sturm's Fall 2019 ENGL 1102 "Atlanta in the 1960s" class at the Georgia Institute of Technology
This full-class collaborative project curates a set of digital exhibits that present multimodal research-based narratives about five of the major events represented in the Ivan Allen Digital Archive, a digital archive of the mayoral records of Ivan Allen, Jr., the 52nd mayor of Atlanta from 1962-1970. These exhibits address the Peyton Road Wall, the Civil Rights Act, Lester Maddox, Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, and the so-called Summerhill Riot. Curated by 24 students over the course of five weeks, this website explores these important topics from Allen's tenure as mayor and examines how the primary sources in the Ivan Allen Digital Archive allow us to construct critical narratives about the history of Atlanta in the 1960s.
Hosted by Georgia Tech, the Ivan Allen Digital Archive is an Omeka-based digital archive composed of over 10,000 documents from Allen's time in office, including letters, meeting records, pamphlets, maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, and much more. While the Ivan Allen Digital Archive is the primary digital repository used in this project, archival resources from other important digital archives on Atlanta's history are utilized throughout this project including the Civil Rights Digital Library, the Georgia State University Library Digital Collections, and the SNCC Digital Gateway. To navigate our curated exhibits, select an exhibit from the menu at the top of this page. Each exhibit includes descriptive commentary and analysis, a short documentary video, a data visualization that allows users to explore the event and corresponding documents in a unique visual form, and a curated set of primary sources that tell the story of Ivan Allen, Jr.'s Atlanta.
Hosted by Georgia Tech, the Ivan Allen Digital Archive is an Omeka-based digital archive composed of over 10,000 documents from Allen's time in office, including letters, meeting records, pamphlets, maps, newspaper clippings, photographs, and much more. While the Ivan Allen Digital Archive is the primary digital repository used in this project, archival resources from other important digital archives on Atlanta's history are utilized throughout this project including the Civil Rights Digital Library, the Georgia State University Library Digital Collections, and the SNCC Digital Gateway. To navigate our curated exhibits, select an exhibit from the menu at the top of this page. Each exhibit includes descriptive commentary and analysis, a short documentary video, a data visualization that allows users to explore the event and corresponding documents in a unique visual form, and a curated set of primary sources that tell the story of Ivan Allen, Jr.'s Atlanta.
This website was designed by Jacob Evans, Carol Clair Horlock, Hope Kutsche, Paritosh Suri, and Varun Vedula
