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From Coca-Cola to Ebola, Racial Riots to Civil Rights, Epic Ashes to Olympic Torch – the Transformation of Emory, Atlanta, and the South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2018

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Good evening, and welcome to Emory University and Emory Law School. I've been asked to give you an overview of the history of Emory, our home city of Atlanta, and in some ways the entire American South, and I've been asked to do this in less than thirty minutes. I thought I would do that with the help of PowerPoint slides, but unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to project those in this outdoor plaza. So—I will have to call on your imaginations and ask you to conjure up the images that otherwise would be shown on a screen. Let's begin.

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© Gary Hauk 2018. The author is senior adviser to the president of Emory University and the University's first University Historian. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

This is the text of a presentation delivered on October 22, 2017 at the International Association of Law Libraries, 36th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Other Critical Issues in U.S. Law, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 22–26, 2017.

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This is the text of a presentation delivered on October 22, 2017 at the International Association of Law Libraries, 36th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Other Critical Issues in U.S. Law, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 22–26, 2017.