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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum

The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum was founded in 1990 to save and preserve the house where Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the book Gone With the Wind. On August 1, 2004, the Margaret Mitchell House merged with the Atlanta History Center (AHC). As a result, the AHC oversees the operation of the two-acre site which includes the Margaret Mitchell House, Gone With the Wind Movie Museum, Visitors Center, Museum Shop and The Center for Southern Literature. Tours of the exhibits tell the story of Margaret Mitchell beyond the book and movie, including her journalism career, philanthropy and family history. The Center for Southern Literature, the programming division of the MMH, preserves the legacy of Margaret Mitchell through weekly literary author programs, creative writing classes for adults and youth, and the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program.

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  • Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the *Brown v. Board of Education* decision. A self-described "integration baby," Tatum sees our growing isolation from one another as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial division. In this book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. As an acknowledged expert on race relations in the classroom and the development of racial identity, she participated in President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race" and lectures extensively throughout the country. Tatum is also the writer of *Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?* and *Assimilation Blues*.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Travis Holland discusses his first novel *The Archivist's Story*, which explores the recesses of the infamous Lubyanka prison in Russia, where a young archivist is sent to authenticate an unsigned story confiscated from one of the many political prisoners there.
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    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Georgia author Karin Slaughter discusses her latest crime thriller, *Beyond Reach*. Sara Linton, resident medical examiner and pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia, must defend herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit and clear the name of a wrongly accused friend. Slaughter's other novels include *Triptych*, *Faithless*, and *Blindsighted*.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
  • Kristin Gore, Al Gore's daughter, discusses her novel about life in the White House. The heroine of her bestselling debut, *Sammy's Hill*, returns in *Sammy's House*. Samantha Joyce is many things: health care policy advisor, hypochondriac, lover of Japanese Fighting Fish, and of Charlie Lawton, her Washington Post reporter boyfriend.
    Partner:
    Margaret Mitchell House & Museum