Herman 'Skip' Mason Jr. is a one man museum, with a personal history collection that preserves both the well-known and oft forgotten details of a proud culture.
"In the past 40 years, Mason has collected more than 3,000 posters, newspaper clippings, weathered photos and other odds and ends in order to help tell the story of black Atlanta. He now stores his memorabilia in the basement of his Ellenwood home, his office at Morehouse College and a rented public-storage unit. A self-described 'grassroots historian,' Mason's passion for collecting and documenting the little-known facts and anecdotes of black history places him among the ranks of the late Franklin Garrett, perhaps Atlanta's best-known historian, and local relics dealer John Sexton."
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