Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta

List of Figures

Figures 1. The Butler Street YMCA, known as“Atlanta’s Black City Hall” during the segregation era xvii 2. Atlanta’s first black policemen 78 3. John Wesley Dobbs, Masonic leader and cofounder of the Atlanta Negro Voters League 85 4. William Holmes Borders, Atlanta’s most influential black minister from the 1940s through the 1960s 89 5. Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr., Atlanta’s first black mayor 139 6. Reward poster during the Atlanta children’s murders, 1980 175 7. Benjamin E. Mays, first black president of the Atlanta school board 227 ...