By Ronald H. Bayor
ISBN-10: 0807822701
ISBN-13: 9780807822708
Atlanta is usually pointed out as a first-rate instance of a revolutionary New South city during which blacks and whites have cast "a urban too busy to hate." yet Ronald Bayor argues that town keeps to endure the indelible mark of racial bias. supplying the 1st entire historical past of Atlanta race family, he discusses the influence of race at the actual and institutional improvement of town from the top of the Civil battle throughout the mayorship of Andrew younger within the Nineteen Eighties. Bayor exhibits the level of inequality, investigates the space among rhetoric and truth, and offers a clean research of the legacy of segregation and race family for the yank city setting. Bayor explores usually overlooked public coverage matters during the lens of race--including clinic care, street placement and improvement, police and hearth prone, faculties, and park use, in addition to housing styles and employment. He unearths that racial issues profoundly formed Atlanta, as they did different American towns. Drawing on oral interviews and written documents, Bayor strains how Atlanta's black leaders and their group have replied to the effect of race on neighborhood city improvement. by way of bringing long term city improvement right into a dialogue of race, Bayor presents a component lacking in ordinary analyses of towns and race kin.
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Benjamin Mays, Born to Rebel, 1971 Chapter 1 The Racial Setting Atlanta, like most urban areas, has been many cities in one. It was a railroad hub, a commercial center, a key part of the Confederacy, a symbol of the New South, a focal point of urban boosterism, and a nerve center for the civil rights movement. Most of all, it was a city made up of blacks and whites, and their relationship has been a major shaping element in the creation of present-day Atlanta. An Atlanta Urban League statement issued in the late 1940s revealed a basic truth about Atlanta and other cities with large minority populations: "There can be no fundamental improvement in the life and living conditions of the total population without regarding the particular problems Page 4 facing the Negro segment which constitute one-third of the whole.
A bond could pass only if two-thirds of all registered voters approved. Black Atlantans could help defeat a bond either by registering and then purposely not voting or by voting no. The former strategy was used most often. Through the use of such tactics, the black community was able to secure some gains, such as the first black public high school, opened in 1924. 4 Atlanta's blacks were clearly not passive in the face of white hostility and resistance to change, and this point is sharply revealed in the city's political history.
The year 1868 represents not only the year when blacks could legally vote in the city but also the beginning of state and city efforts to curtail that vote. Since the Democrats ran the city council, they were able to secure an ordinance imposing a poll tax in 1868. Georgia's Republican-controlled General Assembly struck this ordinance down in 1870, but it reappeared in altered form later. In 1873, an ordinance allowed Atlantans to vote only if their municipal taxes, including those from previous years, were paid in full.