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Downtown Atlanta News Service Photographs (27)
Downtown Atlanta is the subject of the series of news service photos (27) from the 1960's. It chronicles Atlanta's growth out of and beyond the civil rights struggles of the 1960's towards its goal of being a racially balanced world class cosmopolitan city. Photos range from 6" x 8" to 8" x 10". They are mostly EX, some with newspaper edit marks. One aerial photo from 1965 shows a brand new Atlanta Braves stadium, awaiting the arrival of the baseball franchise from Milwaukee via Boston. Caption also mentions "ambitious city fathers are searching for a professional football team that wants to move south". In contrast, another shot depicts the racial strife of the day showing a wooden barricade that separates "white and negro sections of Peyton and Harlem Roads" in Atlanta's West End section. The racial buffer is called "Atlanta's Berlin Wall" by some.
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