The Peoplestown Project

The Peoplestown Project The project is organized around and with specific community institutions, including Emmaus House and the Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation.

Launched in January 2009, the Peoplestown Project is devoted to studying and interpreting community-based movements and organizations in the Peoplestown neighborhood (central Atlanta). The project collects oral histories and historical manuscripts, develops interpretive programs, and facilitates local examination and interpretation of place and grassroots community organizing. We also are partners

with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History and the Atlanta History Center, who provide access to important related historical collections and, in the case of AARL, ensure that newly collected materials and oral histories will be permanently preserved and available for public use. The oral histories, historical documents, interpretive maps, and digital stories will be collected on a Peoplestown website, which is scheduled to launch in spring 2011. These materials will be available to students, community members, teachers, and researchers who are interested in the themes of community resilience, neighborhood organizing, and urban development and redevelopment.

09/13/2014

Almost 50 years ago, an Episcopal priest founded Emmaus House to serve and fight for the civil rights of the residents of Peoplestown, a neighborhood south of Turner Field.

06/28/2013
Muriel Mattson Lokey passed away peacefully on August 27, 2012. For twenty years she served as the coordinator of the Po...
09/06/2012

Muriel Mattson Lokey passed away peacefully on August 27, 2012. For twenty years she served as the coordinator of the Poverty Rights Office, an advocacy office for poor people that launched at the Emmaus House in the Peoplestown Neighborhood. The PRO was renamed the Muriel Lokey Center in 2008 in her honor.

Family and friends mourn the loss of Muriel Mattson Lokey who passed away peacefully on August 27, 2012. For twenty years she served as the coordinator of the Poverty Rights Office, an advocacy office for poor people. It was renamed the Muriel Lokey Center in 2008 in her honor.

from the Frances Freeborn Pauley Manuscript Collection.
08/19/2012

from the Frances Freeborn Pauley Manuscript Collection.

07/18/2012

Photo courtesy of Charlotta Bright Norby.

07/16/2012

Heavy rain caused more than a dozen homes in the southeast Atlanta neighborhood to flood last week.

07/07/2012

But, following the organization of it, I spent several days per week working in the Poverty Rights Office. We dealt with all types of problems that would confront people of low income, or low access to the system, that would make their lives better.

07/07/2012

Photo courtesy of Charlotta Norby Bright.

07/03/2012

BROWN: And so Muriel Lokey, Ann’s mom, called my mother, Johnnie Brown, and said, “There’s this new project from the Episcopal church, and we need volunteers, and I’m a volunteer. Would you like to come and volunteer?” And so Mother said yes.

03/05/2012

Mar 5, 2012

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