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There Is An Intersection In Atlanta Where Two Worlds Meet; Where The Architecture Changes Dramatically, The Texture Of The Buildings Reflecting Two Histories, Separate And Distinct. It Is A Crossing Of Two Boulevards For Dreamers In The South, White And Black. On The One Hand, There Are The Gleaming Sky Scrapers Of Peachtree, The Street Where Gone With The Wind Author Margaret Mitchell Once Lived And Later Met Her Tragic Death; And On The Other, There Are The Reconstruction-era Churches Of Auburn Avenue, Where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Once Preached And Where His Bier Is Now Entombed Inside A Crypt With The Epitaph Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last. The Contrast Between These Streets Hearkens To A Time When Boundaries Were Imposed By Law, By Segregation; This Roughing Of Borders Provides Lingering Evidence Of A History And A City Only Recently Joined. Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn Explores The Social, Political And Spiritual Growth Of This City And Defines Its Racial Conscience. It Is The Biography Of Atlanta As Told Through Two Of Its Most Prominent And Elite Families - One White, One Black - As They Ascend Over Five Generations On Opposite Si

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Author

Pomerantz, Gary M.

Publisher

Scribner, c1996.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684807171

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography