Athens Juneteenth Celebration Map of Black History in Athens. This map shows sites created by and/or relevant to Black residents of Athens after the announcement of emancipation in Athens on May 4, 1865. Click on a bookmark to zoom to a location and click on a point to open a popup.

This map was created by the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and the Community Mapping Lab.

The map is also available at this page:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/ad28c2457e764e6ea9169ea17dd3fc97

Thank you, Dr. Jerry Shannon the Director of Community Mapping | Undergraduate Coordinator, Geography at UGA and graduate student Maya Ratna Rao for helping us to creating this map of Black Athens.