Source Trail
Start with a source. Follow its story trail.
OldATL keeps source links public-facing here so readers can check the trail, compare context, and send stronger details into the correction path.
Source Library
Public sources behind OldATL stories.
Start here when you want to follow a story back to a public article, record, archive page, or OldATL destination used for context.
Reader Paths
Ways to follow the record.
Check The TrailRead standards
Open stories with public source trails and read how OldATL labels verified, partial, memory, and correction context.
Strengthen LeadsAdd contextMemory-led stories need names, dates, photos, captions, and public links before the archive can sharpen them.
Correct The RecordOne pathUse the correction route when a name, date, place, credit, source, or story relationship needs better context.
Story Source Trails
Start with a story. Check its sources.
Every published story below links back to its public source trail, source standards, and correction path.
Browse 17 story trails
History & Facts
The station that put Black Atlanta on the air
Before “Black radio” became a national industry, WERD proved that ownership could turn a local signal into cultural power.
Business & Institutions
The station upstairs, the movement downstairs
On Auburn Avenue, a single building connected culture, enterprise and the civil-rights movement.
Archives & Artifacts
Atlanta made data beautiful before dashboards
Du Bois and Atlanta University students used design to challenge racist claims at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
History & Facts
When washerwomen used a world's fair as leverage
In 1881, Black laundresses organized for better pay as Atlanta prepared to welcome the world.
Music & Culture
What might you have heard on WERD?
Music, worship, public affairs and neighborhood news shared the airwaves.
History & Facts
Sweet Auburn: A City's Voice
Black business, faith and culture meet on Auburn Avenue.
Bo Legs Civic Legacy
Bo Legs and Atlanta Civic Legacy
Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story.
Music & Culture
The Old Atlanta Megamix
A city of voices, together on one record.
Neighborhoods & Places
SWATS and the City
Southwest Atlanta, music and neighborhood memory.
History & Facts
Maynard Jackson and an Atlanta Era
A connection to Atlanta's civic history.
History & Facts
Atlanta 1996 and Downtown Memory
Where were you when the world came to Atlanta?
Business & Institutions
Churches, Businesses and Block Memory
The places that made a neighborhood feel like home.
People & Voices
Old Atlanta Artist Roll Call
Meet the voices behind the records.
Community Memory
Share Your Old Atlanta Memory
A photograph, a place, a voice. Your part of the city's story.
Archives & Artifacts
Flyers, Photos and Records
The things we kept tell stories of their own.
Events & Screenings
Bring Bo Legs to Your Community
Film, music and conversation.
Corrections & Context
Corrections and Context
Help us get the names, dates and details right.
OldATL Page
OldATL Page
OldATL-owned context pages that connect a story to the site archive, music catalog, documentary context, or contact route.
Browse 4 OldATL Page entries
OldATL Page
Old Atlanta story page
1 story uses this source.
OldATL Page
Old Atlanta music catalog
2 stories use this source.
OldATL Page
Old Atlanta artist directory
1 story uses this source.
OldATL Page
Old Atlanta contact page
6 stories use this source.
Public Source
Public Source
External public records, articles, archive pages, and institutional context used to steady the story trail.
Browse 12 Public Source entries
Public Source
National Park Service: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
1 story uses this source.
Public Source
National Park Service: Maynard Jackson
1 story uses this source.
Public Source
Atlanta History Center: The Centennial Olympic Games
1 story uses this source.
Public Source
Atlanta History Center: Hip-Hop
1 story uses this source.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Georgia capitals and Atlanta context
2 stories use this source.
Public Source
Bo Legs ATL
2 stories use this source.
Public Source
SWATS Nation smartlink
1 story uses this source.
Public Source
Library of Congress: Atlanta University chart
1 story uses this source.
Public Source
New Georgia Encyclopedia: WERD
2 stories use this source.
Public Source
National Park Service: Prince Hall Masonic Lodge
1 story uses this source.
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Smithsonian: Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
1 story uses this source.
Public Source
Smithsonian: Atlanta washerwomen strike
1 story uses this source.