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Clark University was founded in 1869 by the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. An early benefactor, Bishop Gilbert Haven visualized Clark as ‘the university’ of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen.
Clark University, like other black colleges, assumed the role and responsibility of providing for the utilization of black talent for the cultural life of the black community at larger as well as for the campus. (Brawley)
South Atlanta neighborhood grew in prominence, as did the neighboring communities with the development of Lakewood Park and the introduction of the Southeastern Fair Association. The Lakewood area to the south of the South Atlanta neighborhood became recognized as the center for agricultural fairs. The first fair was held in 1916 and continued annually until 1975.
In the early part of the 20th Century Jonesboro Road was a major north south corridor linking communities to the south with downtown Atlanta. The streetcar line was introduced in 1901 and ran along nearby Pryor Road to the west, as well as along Lakewood Avenue and Jonesboro Road. Like most streetcar lines, the trolleys serving Southside Atlanta were abandoned for other forms of transportation by the 1950s.
"Litany to Atlanta" written by W.E.B. Du Bois in response race riot.
The tensions that came to a head in September of 1906 were a result of ongoing racial and political hostility. This hostility was significantly fed by local media, including the newspapers which were controlled by politicians and to a lessor degree an anti-black play by the Klansman Rev. Thomas Dixon. Racial fear was particularly high in the fall of 1906 as a result of gubernatorial race in which candidates were use Negrophobia in their favor to persuade voters. (2) (1) sweetauburn.us (2)Pomeranta, Gary. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn. pg 72-77.
On Saturday, September 22, 1906, the shrill sound of newsboys pierced Five Points: "Extra! Third Assault on White Woman by a Negro Brute!" "Extra! Bold Negro Kisses White Girl's Hand!" 'Extra! Bright Mulatto Insults White Girls!" Atlanta newspapers had been publishing highly sensationalized accounts of black "vice" for a week. (It sold newspapers, just like sensationalism still does today). One day earlier it had reported that Atlanta police had swept "dives" frequented by blacks along Decatur Street and removed photographs of nude white women from the walls of one parlor. The Georgian Newpaper suggested that eleven assaults had been made by blacks against white women during the past seven weeks alone. The accounts were lurid and dramatic, including one in The Evening News: "With his yellow lips forming insulting phrases, Luther Frazier ' a young negro, attacked Miss Orrie Bryan, the pretty 18 year old daughter of Thomas L. Bryan, in her home." The Evening News sent out an emotional call in that same edition: "Men of Fulton, what will you do to stop these outrages against the women? ... Shall these black devils be permitted to assault and almost kill our women, and go unpunished?" Directly quoted from: sweetauburn.us/rings/raceriot.htm
Riots said to have set the tone of race relations in Atlanta for the next fifty years.
Atlanta did not open a high school for black students until 1924, more than 50 years after opening high schools for white students and after many other southern cities had already done so. Per-pupil expenditures in mid-century were nearly three times higher for white students. These funding differences increased in the 1960s, as the school board refused to reallocate resources to majority-black schools to account for the demographic shifts caused by more than 60,000 white students leaving the district. This uneven investment had a measurable effect on student learning. A 1968 study, for example, found that black fourth graders lagged one year behind their white peers, while black eighth-graders lagged four years behind
Clark university departs from South Atlanta and joins the Atlanta university system.
"The city too busy moving to hate"
SNCC marches to city hall to deliver document of greviances about South Atlanta’s lack of recreational and basic infastructrual resources. Distribute leaflet, “South Atlanta: The Forgotten Community” (Brown-Nagin)
As much as the famous March on Washington in August 1963 reflected the fervor of the Civil Rights Movements on the national stage, it also represented the momentum of Civil Rights struggles in Atlanta. In response to the March, Students for Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) increasingly undertook efforts to fight poverty in Atlanta's South side communities. Through the labor of resident coalitions, by the end of August SNCC marched to City Hall and presented a document of greviances to the mayor. They also distributed a pamphelet entitled, "South Atlanta: The Forgotten Community" which detailed the neighborhoods' lack of basic resources.
City used federal fund to demolish majority black communities to make way for interstate highways, civic center, and what is now Turner Field.
Plunge in metro Atlanta home values disproportionately affected African American residents. Many northern Atlanta homes have rebounded in tandem with national trends, while the mortgages of many south side homes still exceed their property value. This lack of growth creates a domino effect by making what is normally regarded an asset- homeownership- a liability.
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