America's Black capital how African Americans remade Atlanta in the shadow of the Confederacy
"Atlanta is widely considered to be America's Black Mecca. It has a higher concentration of black millionaires, black-owned businesses, and HBCUs than any other city in the United States. African Americans are overrepresented in every strata of Atlanta's governance. In 2020, more black voters in the...
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New York :
Basic Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Atlanta's Dixie Heritage: From the Heart of the Confederacy to the Black Mecca
- Capturing the Heart of the Confederacy: Secession, War and the Making of Atlanta
- "No Capes for Negroes": Quasi-Free Blacks and Civil War Atlanta
- Sherman's Shadow: Reconstruction Era Georgia, and Atlanta's Renewal
- Redeeming Atlanta: Neo-Confederacy and Political Power
- The New South Mecca: Atlanta, Race and Self-Determination
- Rising from the Ashes, Again: The Desolation of Black Atlanta in 1906
- The Second Resurgence: Atlanta, the Old South and the New Negroes
- Black Nationalism in the Klan's Sacred Kapital City: The New Era and Atlanta's 1920s Neo-Confederate Revival
- The Dixie Reprise: White Nationalism and the Modern Civil Rights Movement
- "Atlanta is Ours and Fairly Won": The Rise of the Black Mecca
- Atlanta in the New Century: Beyond the Novelty of Black Mayors
- Epilogue: Dancing with the Past: Looking Ahead in Atlanta.
