Bankhead is a neighborhood located west of downtown

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. It is surrounded by Grove Park to the west, Washington Park and

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to the south. To the east and northeast are Hills Park, Knight 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 The B.E.S.T. Academy, Grove Park Elementary, A.D. Williams Elementary School, Carter G. Woodson 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 Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway (for a civil rights attorney who lived near Bankhead in the nearby affluent and historic Collier Heights 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.

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Bankhead is also the former home to artists

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, P$C,

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, D4L, Shawty Lo, and current rapper, Lil RT . The 1990s Bankhead Bounce 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

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