How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta

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Ronald Bayor, emeritus professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted and his book referenced in “How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta” in Reporter Newspapers, July 3.

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According to some Atlanta historians, they won’t have far to look for subject matter. Racism, the historians say, was a driving force in making the communities majority-White and affluent, in the annexation and cityhood movements that raised them to prominence, and in the lingering segregation that they help to embody in the metro area’s housing patterns, schools and economic development.

“I don’t think anything’s changed for the suburban areas. They resisted integration back then… The whole area’s still segregated,” said Ronald Bayor, a retired professor of history and sociology at Georgia Tech and author of “Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.”

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  • Created On: Jul 7, 2020 - 5:06pm
  • Last Updated: Jul 7, 2020 - 5:06pm