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Photograph of the Swatford family's first year at Antioch A.M.E. Church in Decatur, Georgia, taken in 1993.

The Georgia Humanities website posted information about the Antioch A.M.E. Church's History Day event. The posting gives a schedule of speakers and workshops on collecting Antioch A.M.E. history and preserving personal history as well.

The Decaturish website (decaturish.com) posted the Antioch A.M.E. Church's History Day information on their website as a community event.

An oral history with Elayne Washington Hunter, recorded on January 21, 2018, at Antioch A.M.E. Church. Historians Julia Brock and Robin Morris conducted the interview. Washington describes her childhood in Decatur, Georgia; her early memories of…

This digital article in the Saporta Report discusses the people coming together for the Antioch A.M.E. Church's History Day event in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

This digital article in the DeKalb Neighbor gives information about Antioch A.M.E. Church, originally in Decatur, and the different events happening during Antioch A.M.E. Church's History Day event in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Newspaper article from The Atlanta Constitution about Decatur residents' reactions to the renaming of Oliver Street to Commerce Drive by the Decatur City Commission in 1984. Oliver St. was named after Henry Oliver, a former slave who lived from 1831…

This newspaper article discusses how Antioch A.M.E. Church, under Rev. G. C. G. Thomas, is having a large educational and religious event with many of Georgia's leading religious and educational figures to be in attendance. The Chautauqua took place…

Antioch A.M.E. Church offertory envelope kept by Mattie Clayton Harper, mother to Barbara Lowe, containing ashes from the Antioch A.M.E. mortgage burning on March 8, 1981 in Decatur, Georgia.

This newspaper article from the Atlanta Daily World details a successful day of "reconstruction" at the Antioch A.M.E. Church in Decatur, Georgia in February 1938.