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

Appendix. African American Influentials in Atlanta, 1950–1990

Appendix African American Influentials in Atlanta, 1950–1990 Power Brokers Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader Walter (Chief) Aiken, businessman T. M. Alexander, businessman William (Bill) Allison, businessman Miles Amos, businessman, Democratic Party leader Marvin Arrington, city councilman Clarence Albert (C. A.) Bacote, educator Harold I. (H. I.) Bearden, minister, NAACP official Jesse B. (J. B.) Blayton, businessman Julian Bond, state senator William Holmes Borders, minister, civil rights leader John Calhoun, businessman William (Bill) Campbell, city councilman, later mayor Xernona Clayton, TV personality and executive Rufus E. Clement, educator, school board member Warren R. Cochrane,YMCA official John Cox, YMCA official John Wesley Dobbs, fraternal leader Shirley Franklin, city official, future mayor Grace Towns Hamilton, Urban League official, state representative C. L. Harper, educator Geneva Haugabrooks, businesswoman Vivian Henderson, educator Jesse Hill, businessman Donald Hollowell, attorney Ira Jackson, businessman, city councilman 250 Appendix Maynard Jackson Jr., mayor B. Joseph Johnson, minister Leroy Johnson, state senator Ingrid Saunders Jones, city official, businesswoman Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader Barbara King, minister Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader Lonnie King, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Sr., minister, civil rights leader John Lewis, civil rights leader Michael Lomax, city, county official Joseph Lowery, minister, civil rights leader E. M. Martin, businessman Benjamin E. Mays, educator, school board member Joseph Middleton, educator, school board member Lorimer (L. D.) Milton, businessman James Paschal, businessman Charles Reynolds, businessman Herman Russell, businessman Cornelius A. (C. A.) Scott, publisher Lyndon A. Wade, Urban League official Austin Thomas (A. T.) Walden, attorney, civil rights leader Carl Ware, businessman Samuel W. Williams, minister, educator, NAACP leader Q. V. Williamson, businessman, city councilman Johnnie Yancey, community activist Clayton R. (C. R.) Yates, businessman Andrew Young, civil rights leader, mayor Grassroots Leaders Dorothy Bolden, labor leader Joseph Boone, minister, civil rights leader Ella Mae Brayboy, community activist Tyrone Brooks, state representative Benjamin Brown, state representative Ted Clark, minister Mukasa Dada (Willie Ricks), community activist Emma Darnell, city, county official 251 African American Influentials in Atlanta, 1950–1990 Jan Douglas, community activist A. Reginald Eaves, police commissioner M. Carl Holman, educator Jondelle Johnson, NAACP leader Susie LaBord, community activist Ethel Mae Mathews, community activist Sandra Robertson, community activist Mary Sanford, community activist Hildred Shumake, state representative “Able” Mable Thomas, state representative J. Lowell Ware, publisher Louise Whatley, community activist Hosea Williams, civil rights leader, city councilman, state representative Notes Data taken from Susan Howard,“Taking the Torch: Atlanta’s Emerging Black Leaders, Atlanta Weekly, 3 November 1985, 14–30, 36–37; Floyd Hunter, Community Power Succession,“Political Participation Poll” (n.d.; ca. 1975), in C.A. Bacote Papers, State Committee on the Life and History of Black Georgians (SCLHBG). Jesse Hill and E. M. Martin exercised leadership as CEOs of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company . Atlanta Life chairman Norris Herndon, a millionaire recluse, exercised his influence through them. ...