Description: An illustrated and historic guidebook designed to educate visitors and inspire action, Civil Sights not only describes and depicts historically significant Sweet Auburn buildings and streets; it also tells the stories of people and places, then and now, that came together to move mountains before, during, and after that civil rights movement.
Brief description: Gene Kansas is a real estate developer and historic preservationist. He headed up the preservation of the Atlanta Daily World building in Sweet Auburn, which was named the #2 Preservation Win by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and is founder of award-winning Constellations, a civic, social, and culturally based shared workspace in Sweet Auburn. His writing has appeared in Atlanta Magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Creative Loafing, and Main Street Now Journal. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Review Quotes: As a native Atlantan, Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn is a refreshing read. The collections of essays are concise, and the illustrations evoke images of what once was and what are now memories. Civil Sights highlights lesser-known leaders of the civil rights movement and their contributions. Leaders such as Peter James Bryant, Emily S. Cox and her sons--a few civil rights activists whose contributions are largely unknown to the general public. It was a pleasant surprise to read the essay on Charles Lincoln Harper, a lesser-known leader whose contributions are immeasurable.--Leslie Spencer "lecturer at Georgia State University and the founder of Sankofa Cultural Resources"