Born into slavery, Alonzo Herndon would eventually become Atlanta's first black millionaire. Alonzo Herndon was Atlanta's first black millionaire and was influential in shaping todays landscape for ...

11Alive salutes historic South-View Cemetery, one of America's oldest African-American Cemeteries. Alonzo F. Herndon, who was the largest black property owner in Atlanta in the 1900's, is buried here.

The house on Diamond Hill is a little battered, but still standing. The house, the 99-year-old Herndon Home, former residence of Alonzo Herndon and his son, Norris, is the only privately owned and ...

From the archive: This story originally ran on Feb. 17, 2016, as part of the initial AJC Sepia Black History Month Series. In 2020, Census data reported that the median annual household income for ...

Alonzo Franklin Herndon was born into slavery in Walton County, Georgia. Herndon was the son of his white slave holder, Frank Herndon, and an enslaved woman named Sophenie. In 1888, Herndon became the ...

It’s easy to overlook the Herndon Home. The museum sits on a short one-way street in a hidden corner near Vine City. The house across the road is abandoned. Down the street, Morris Brown College ...

I hold your stories. I am Georgia’s red clay and black land. The silence that speaks beneath the roar of trains and traffic. I am a record. You call me soil, but I am memory. I remember how Black life ...