Civil Bikes Blog

1906 Race Riot Walking Tour

By Nedra Deadwyler / October 4, 2019

The Atlanta Way Violence is never becoming.  Not even on a battlefield. The Civil War battles that waged in and around the City and the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906…

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The Black aesthetic of artist, Mary Parks Washington

By civilbikesatl / April 16, 2019

Early Life Mary Parks Washington is an Atlanta-born, fine art artist with decades of holding a dialectic with history and her lived experience. She forge room for herself and other…

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Let's talk About Bike Lanes

By Nedra Deadwyler / April 17, 2018

The most common response to,”Why do you ride a bicycle?”, is resoundingly, “FREEDOM!”.  When bringing up the conversation about bike lanes, there is always electricity in the air.  Depending on…

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Our Changing Landscape

By Nedra Deadwyler / July 12, 2017

Atlanta neighborhoods are changing rapidly. Every day that I fail to travel to a neighborhood, ride down a certain street or simply stay home to work in my garden, I…

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After Visiting Ebenezer Baptist Church

By Nedra Deadwyler / June 22, 2017

We all have our own personal experience, even when we are in a group.  There is value in what the mind thinks and more importantly what the heart feels.  On recent…

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