Atlanta, Georgia
(see also Southern American History, Life & Values)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Stone, Clarence N. "Atlanta: protest & elections are not enough," PS 19,3 (sum 86).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Allen, Ivan Jr. with Paul Hemphill. Mayor: Notes on the Sixties (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971).
Bauerlein, Mark. Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (San Francisco: Encounter, 2001).
Davis, Harold E. Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave & Beautiful City (Tuscaloosa: U. of Alabama, 1990).
Elsinger, Peter K. The Politics of Displacement: Race & Ethnic Transition in Three American Cities (NY: Academic, 1980).
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina, 2002).
Jennings, M. Kent. Community Influentials: The Elites of Alanta (NY: Free Press,
Keating, Larry. Atlanta: Race, Class & Urban Expansion (Philadelphia: Temple, 2001).
Martin, Harold H. William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (Athens: U. of Georgia, 1978).
Parsons, Sara Mitchell. From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist (Tuscaloosa: U. of Alabama, 2000).
Russell, James Michael. Atlanta, 1847-1890: City Building in the Old South & the New (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U., 1988).
Silver, Christopher & John V. Moeser. The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968 (Lexington: U. of Kentucky, 1995).
Stone, Clarence N. Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 (Lawrence: U. of Kansas, 1989).
Watts, Eugene J. The Social Bases of City Politics: Atlanta, 1865-1903 (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1978).
In the Library: Fiction
Bambara, Toni Cade. Those Bones Are Not My Child (NY: Pantheon, 1999).
Cleage, Pearl. Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do (NY: Ballantine, 2003).
Coleman, Evelyn. What a Woman's Gotta Do (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
Griffith, Nicola. The Blue Place (NY: Perennial, 1999).
Hays, Tommy. Sam's Crossing (NY: Atheneum, 1992).
Hunter, Travis. A One Woman Man (NY: Ballantine, 2004).
Kun, Michael. My Wife & My Dead Wife: A Novel (San Francisco: McAdam/Cage, 2004).
Major, Clarence. Such Was the Season (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U., 2003).
Mamet, David. The Old Religion (NY: Free Press, 1997).
Wolfe, Tom. A Man in Full: A Novel (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998).
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