Christina Crawford interviewed about the GHS historical marker dedications in an AtlantaNewsFirst (WANF) segment
The October 11, 2022 dedications for the two new historical markers at Techwood Homes and University Homes, sponsored by the Georgia Historical Society, Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, and the Atlanta Housing Authority, generated significant press coverage in Atlanta, Georgia, and even at the national level on the US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) website. Christina Crawford was delighted to be featured in a short “feel good” segment with reporter Sawyer Buccy on WANF! To quote Crawford in the press release from Georgia Historical Society:
“As an architectural historian, I’m delighted to have spearheaded the formal commemoration of these two foundational sites in the history of public housing in the United States,” said Dr. Christina Crawford, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the Art History Department at Emory University. “Marking University Homes and Techwood together, and equally, is one step in an ongoing effort to celebrate the history of generations of Atlantans who built their lives there and to reconcile the projects’ segregationist past.”
Please click the links below for media coverage:
Atlanta’s public housing history recognized, thanks to the work of an Emory associate professor (Atlanta News First (WANF) television segment)
Georgia Historical Society Dedicated Two New Historical Markers Recognizing Techwood Homes and University Homes (AllOnGeorgia)
Atlanta’s pioneering construction and demolition of public housing the focus of markers, exhibit (Saporta Report)
Two pioneering public housing sites to receive historical markers, thanks to Emory professor and students (Emory News Center)
Georgia Historical Society to Dedicate Two New Historical Markers Recognizing Techwood Homes and University Homes (Georgia Historical Society)
Atlanta Housing Authority, “Atlanta Housing Commemorates Birth of Public Housing at Former Techwood, University Homes Sites” (Cision PR Newsire)
ROOSEVELT HALL HISTORICAL MARKER DEDICATION CEREMONY (US Housing and Urban Development (HUD))