Beaver Slide was an African American slum area near Atlanta University documented as early as 1882.[1]
In 1925 the area was targeted for a "cleanup" by city and university authorities.[2][3]
The area was celebrated musically in the "Beaver Slide Rag" by Peg Leg Howell And His Gang, 1927.[4]
It was finally razed to make for the University Homes public housing projects (William Augustus Edwards, architect), which opened in 1938.
University Homes was in turn razed in 2008-9 to make way for new "College Town" development. As of April 2011 this was still in the planning stages.[5]
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