Bankhead is a neighborhood located west of downtown

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, Georgia. It is surrounded by Grove Park to the west, Washington Park and Hunter Hills to the south. To the east and northeast are Hills Park,

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and Blandtown. It is also flanked by Rockdale to the northwest. At its center is

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's Bankhead station and the city's

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. The neighborhood schools are

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, Grove Park Elementary, A.D. Williams Elementary School,

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Elementary School, Alfred Blalock Elementary School, and Frederick Douglass High School. The neighborhood's name comes from

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, a thoroughfare that has since been renamed the

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Parkway (for a civil rights attorney who lived near Bankhead in the nearby affluent and historic

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neighborhood). The boundaries of Bankhead are Jefferson Street to the north (a few blocks North of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway), Joseph E. Boone Blvd to the south, Joseph E. Lowery Blvd to the east and Chappell Rd to the west.

Culture

Bankhead is also the former home to artists T.I.,

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, Dem Franchize Boyz,

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, and

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, Shawty Lo also claims he is from Bankhead in the Bowen Homes housing projects which is located in the Brookview Heights neighborhood. The 1990s

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dance, performed by

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at the 1995 MTV Music Video Awards, was named after the neighborhood.

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Neighborhoods in Atlanta {{Atlanta-stub

Culture

See also

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