On Display at Clarkston: 2020

Lichtenstein Consulting Engineers.
Historic Context of theI nterstate Highway System in Georgia.
Georgia Department of TransportationOffice of Environment/Location, 2007,
http://www.dot.ga.gov/
AboutGeorgia/CentennialHome/
Documents/Historical%20Documents/
HistoricalContextof%20GeorgiaInterstates.pdf
In many ways, Georgia was the envy of the nationbecause of its aggressive and innovative programs that allowed the state to firstcomplete its interstate system and then begin reconstruction of the most heavily usedsections in the metro Atlanta region
Historic Context of the Interstate Highway System in Georgia

MARTA
MARTA,
MARTAm
Atlanta, 2020, https://www.itsmarta.com
The web site for updates, service alerts, schedules, employment opportunities, and history of Atlanta, DeKalb, and Gwinnett County's transit system.
Eileen H. Kramer

Rayam, Lisa and Marie White Tillman.
"Why the Census Count is Important to MARTA."
WABE,
Atlanta, 16 January 2020,
https://www.wabe.org/why-the-census-count-is-important-to-marta/
Census Day is April 1, 2020. The results produce data about Americans and the economy. The count is very important to Atlanta’s Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. MARTA is the principal public transport operator in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
ttps://www.wabe.org/why-the-census-count-is-important-to-marta/

Shama, Tansim.
"MARTA’s Post-I-85-Bridge-Collapse Growth Slows Down."
WABE,
https://www.wabe.org/martas-post-i-85-bridge-collapse-growth-slows-down/.
he day after a section of an Interstate 85 bridge in Atlanta collapsed, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority saw a 21 percent increase in ridership. Nearly a month later, the growth in new riders is slowing down.
WABE

Waligore, Mark.
"Opinion: A Regular Rider's View of MARTA."
TCA Regional News,

Apr 12, 2019,
ProQuest News & Newspapers
In a town where it can take one hour and 15 minutes to travel 15 miles, why would public transportation carry such a negative connotation? Does MARTA really pander to a "bad element," as one reader wrote on our opinion pages? Do we metro Atlantans love our cars that much that taking the train, or, God forbid, the bus, is unthinkable?
ProQuets News & Newspapers

Williams, John E. Transcending Barriers: Race, Mobility, and Transportation Planning in Postwar Atlanta, 1944-1975.
Georgia State University, 2015,
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=history_diss
From the onset of postwar planning with the Lochner Report in 1944, to the groundbreaking for the construction of the MARTA rapid rail lines in 1975, this project explores the contours of race and mobility through the lenses of transportation planning.
Williams, John E. "Abstract." Transcending Barriers.

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Neighborhood Segregation in Atlanta

Buffington, Perry W., and Kim. Underwood. Archival Atlanta: Electric Street Dummies, the Great Stonehenge Explosion, Nerve Tonics, and Bovine Laws : Forgotten Facts and Well-Kept Secrets from Our City's Past.
1st ed., Peachtree Publishers, 1996.
Call # F294.A857 B84 1996
This conversational history of Atlanta offers fascinating-and true-stories from the past, organized by category.
http://www.amazon.com

Bullard, Robert D., et al. Sprawl City : Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta.
Island Press, 2000.
Call # Atlanta HT243.U62 A757 2000
A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on economic and racial polarization. Atlanta, Georgia, one of the fastest growing areas in the country, offers a striking example of sprawl-induced stratification.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Charles, J. B.
"Federal Housing Discrimination Still Hurts Home Values in Black Neighborhoods."
TCA Regional News,
Apr 27, 2018,
ProQuest News and Newspapers
Housing values in American cities still break sharply along racial lines, showing the lingering impact of federal "redlining" in the 1930s, which devalued homes in African-American neighborhoods. The practice was outlawed decades ago, but its effects are still evident. In fact, according to a study published last week by real estate website Zillow, the disparity has grown even worse over the past two decades.
ProQuest News and Newspapers

Goss, Steve.
"‘White Flight’ and Atlanta’s Churches Revisited in Emory Honors Thesis."
One on One
WABE, Atlanta, 16 May, 2013, https://www.wabe.org/white-flight-and-atlantas-churches-revisited-emory-honors-thesis/
Many of Atlanta’s neighborhoods underwent a racial ‘sea change’ in the decades following World War Two. The response and reaction by neighborhood churches to that transition is recounted in an honors thesis by Emory University student Preston Hogue entitled, “The Ties That Bind: White Church Flight in Atlanta from 1955 to 1985.
One on One

Hartle, Robert. The Highs & Lows of Little Five: A History of Little Five Points.
History Press, 2010.
Call # F294.A86 L584 2010
Atlanta's Little Five Points, the city's first Neighborhood Commercial District, stands out as one of the most distinctive shopping districts in the Southeast. There have been quite a few ups and downs in the area's history, but ultimately the dedicated, passionate individuals who made L5P what it is today handled them with perseverance and foresight, creating unique, independently owned stores that draw the most eclectic mix of people found anywhere in Atlanta. The cultural melting pot created by these stores is what makes Little Five Points such a popular destination for both locals and tourists.
http://books.google.com

Hayes, Melissa Mae. The Building Blocks of Atlanta: Racial Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Inequity.
Georgia State University, 2006,
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=sociology_theses.
I conduct a case study of Atlanta's metropolitan core in order to provide a rich, detailed analysis of urban neighborhoods, and to document the persistence of racial inequalities. Using Census 2000 block group data, I examine racial residential segregation in the five core counties of Atlanta between whites and minority groups, as well as among minority groups.
Hayes, Melissa Mae. "Abstract."

Joyner, Tammy, and Arielle Kass.
"Clayton Leads Metro Area in Single-Family Rental Homes."
TCA Regional News,
April 21, 2016.
ProQuest News and Newspapers
Clayton Public Schools Superintendent Luvenia Jackson says the increased presence of renters in single-family homes affects everything from testing to student turnover. Community activist Derrick Boazman said the flood of single-family rentals hurts future home ownership in the county.
ProQuest News and Newspapers

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Keating, Larry. Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion.
emple University Press, 2001.
Call # Decatur HC108.A75 K4 2001
Atlanta, the epitome of the New South, is a city whose economic growth has transformed it from a provincial capital to a global city, one that could bid for and win the 1996 Summer Olympics. Yet the reality is that the exceptional growth of the region over the last twenty years has exacerbated inequality, particularly for African Americans. Atlanta, the city of Martin Luther King, Jr., remains one of the most segregated cities in the United States.
http://books.google.com

Kruse, Kevin Michael. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.
Princeton University Press, 2005.
Call # F294.A89 A233 2005
In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu
Note: This books is not on any campus as of February 2020.

Pomerantz, Gary M. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta.
Scribner, 1996.
Call # F294.A853 A28 1996
There is an intersection in Atlanta where two worlds meet; where the architecture changes dramatically, the texture of the buildings reflecting two histories, separate and distinct. It is a crossing of two boulevards for dreamers in the South, white and black.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Stokes, Stephannie.
"How Atlanta Became The Capital Of Income Inequality."
WABE
Atlanta, 31 October, 2018,
https://www.wabe.org/atlanta-income-inequality/
The city of Atlanta regularly shows up at the top of lists on income inequality. But there may be more to the story than the ranking.
WABE.

Thompson, Joseph F., and Robert Isbell. Atlanta: A City of Neighborhoods.
University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
Call # F294.A843 T48 1994
Looks at the South's leading metropolis not as the home of a pennant-winning baseball team or as the capitol of Georgia or even as the host of the 1996 Olympics but rather as the sum of more than 325 neighborhoods.
http://books.google.com

Wilson, Charles Reagan., et al. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Volume 15: Urbanization.
The University of North Carolina Press, 2010,
Call # Ebook Central F209 .N4715 2010
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.
Ebook Central

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Race in Atlanta

Allen, Frederick. Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City, 1946-1996.
Longstreet Press, 1996.
Call # F294.A857 A53 1996
Drawing from personal papers, private correspondence, and the authors own intimate knowledge of the major players, we find the complex workings of a city constantly reinventing itself.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Bayor, Ronald H. Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.
The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Call # EBSCOHost eBook Collection
Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged'a city too busy to hate. But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta race relations, he discusses the impact of race on the physical and institutional development of the city from the end of the Civil War through the mayorship of Andrew Young in the 1980s.
EBSCOHost eBook Collection.

Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America.
4th ed., Johnson Pub. Co., 1969.
Call # E185 .B4 1969
Traces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Brown-Nagin, Tomiko. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement.
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Call # KF4757 .B76 2011
In this sweeping history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta--the South's largest and most economically important city--from the 1940s through 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that the movement featured a vast array of activists and many sophisticated approaches to activism. Long before "black power" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a new name, African Americans in Atlanta debated the meaning of equality and the steps necessary to obtain social and economic justice
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Dittmer, John.
"Too Busy to Hate : Race, Class, and Politics in TwentiethCentury Atlanta."
The Georgia Historical Quarterly,

vol. 81, no. l, 1997, pp. 103— 117.
JSTOR,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40583545
A review of three books about Atlanta history, with a focus on African American history.
Eileen H. Kramer

Grady-Willis, Winston A. Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960-1977.
Duke University Press, 2006.
Call # F294.A89 N4387 2006
Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an innovative, richly detailed history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. Winston A. Grady-Willis provides a seamless narrative stretching from the student nonviolent direct action movement and the first experiments in urban field organizing through efforts to define and realize the meaning of Black Power to the reemergence of Black women-centered activism.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Hagen, Lisa.
"Evolving Civil Rights In The ‘City Too Busy to Hate.’"
WABE
Atlanta, 26 October 2017, https://www.wabe.org/evolving-civil-rights-city-busy-hate/
Metro Atlanta has a lot to offer today’s social justice activists: economic inequality, police violence, the Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy. But how can these things still be in a place known for its central role in American civil rights history?
WABE

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Hannah-Jones, Nikole et. al.
The 1619 Project, New York Times,2019,
The Pulitzer Center, 2020,
https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf
No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is fi nally time to tell our story truthfully.
"Cover." The 1619 Project.

Hornsby, Alton. Black Power in Dixie: a Political History of African Americans in Atlanta.
University Press of Florida, 2009.
Call # F294.A89 N4443 2009
Atlanta stands out among southern cities for many reasons, not least of which is the role African Americans have played in local politics. This work offers the first comprehensive study of black politics in the city.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Kanell, Michael.
"Can You Go from Rags to Riches in Atlanta? Expert Says it's Long Odds."
TCA Regional News,
Oct 06, 2016,
ProQuest News and Newspapers
Economically, that is: a number of experts say it may not be good that there is such a huge gap between poor and rich, but that's not the whole story. Mobility matters: inequality isn't so important if someone born near the bottom of the heap can power their way skyward with talent and hard work. And where, you might ask, is Atlanta when it comes to that mobility?
ProQuest News and Newspapers

McDermott, Monica. Working-Class White: the Making and Unmaking of Race Relations.
University of California Press, 2006.
Call # E184.A1 M136 2006
This lively, informative study provides an intimate view of the lived experience of race in urban America from a unique vantage: the corner store. Sociologist Monica McDermott spent a year working as a convenience store clerk in white working class neighborhoods in Atlanta and Boston in order to observe race relations between blacks and whites in a natural setting. Her findings illuminate the subtle cues and genuine misunderstandings that make up race relations in many urban communities, explore how racial interactions and racial identity are influenced by local context, and provide evidence of what many would prefer to believe does not exist: continued anti-black prejudice among white Americans.
http://gilfind.gsu.edu

Sjoquist, David L. Atlanta Paradox.
Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
Call # EBSCOHost eBook Collection
Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the suburban rich and the city poor. This book investigates the key factors underlying this paradox.
EBSCOHost eBook Collection.

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