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On this week’s episode, we speak with Dr. Jef­frey O.G. Ogbar about his lat­est book, Amer­i­ca’s Black Cap­i­tal: How African Amer­i­cans Remade Atlanta in the Shad­ow of the Con­fed­er­a­cy. Amer­i­c­as Black Cap­i­tal chron­i­cles how a cen­ter of Black excel­lence emerged amid vir­u­lent expres­sions of white nation­al­ism, as African Amer­i­cans pushed back against Con­fed­er­ate ide­ol­o­gy to cre­ate an extra­or­di­nary locus of achieve­ment. We exam­ine the meth­ods in which Black Atlanteans pushed for social, eco­nom­ic, and polit­i­cal uplift­ment through the devel­op­ment of Black col­le­giate sys­tems, entre­pre­neur­ship, and civic engagement.