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Timeline of Atlanta

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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19th century

{{Georgia State History}}

  • 1821 – Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta per treaty.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1839 – Settlement of "Terminus" established (at what would be end of Western and Atlantic Railroad).
  • 1843 – Town of Marthasville incorporated.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1845
  • Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Marthasville) begins operating.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • Marthasville renamed "Atlanta."{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1846 – Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1847 – Town of Atlanta incorporated.{{Citation |publisher = W. Thorne Williams |location = Savannah |title = Statistics of the State of Georgia |author =George White |date = 1849 |oclc = 1349061 |ol = 6904242M }}
  • 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor.
  • 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor.
  • 1850
  • Population: 2,572
  • Atlanta Cemetery founded.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1851 - Western and Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest.{{Cite web|title = Atlanta History - Tours of Atlanta|url = http://www.toursofatlanta.com/en/atlhistory|website = www.toursofatlanta.com|access-date = 2015-11-19}}{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
  • 1852 - Atlanta & West Point Railroad built.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1853 - Atlanta becomes seat of Fulton County.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • 1855
  • Atlanta Medical College established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Gas lighting installed in city.{{Citation |publisher = S. Boykin |author=Adiel Sherwood |date = 1860 |edition=4th |location = Macon, Ga |title = Gazetteer of Georgia |ol = 24245479M}}
  • 1860
  • Population: 9,554.
  • William Ezzard becomes mayor (1860 - 1861).
  • 1861
  • Jared Whitaker becomes mayor (1861 - 1861 - joined CSA government).
  • Thomas Lowe becomes mayor (1861 - 1862).
  • 1864
  • James Calhoun becomes mayor (1862 - 1866).
  • May–September: Union forces wage Atlanta Campaign.
  • September 2: Union forces take city.{{cite web |url= http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/uscivilwar/timeline/timelinecivilwar.html |work= Britain and the American Civil War |series = Online Exhibitions |title= Timeline of the American Civil War |year=2013 |publisher=British Library }}
  • November 15: Burning of Atlanta by Union forces.
  • Nov. 26: Col. Luther J. Glenn is appointed commander of the Atlanta Post.Cooper, Official History of Fulton County{{rp|182}}
  • Dec. 5: Cap. Thomas L. Dodd is appointed the Provost-Marshal.{{rp|182}}
  • Dec 7: Gen. W. P. Howard sends his report to Governor Brown on the destruction of Atlanta.{{rp|182–185}}Davis, What the Yankees Did to Us{{rp|407–412}}
  • 1865
  • Civil War ends; slaves freed.
  • Atlanta University, first Atlanta black college, founded.
  • 1867 - Young Men's Library Association founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~davpro/databases/index.html |title=American Libraries before 1876 |author= Davies Project |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=October 13, 2013 }}
  • 1868
  • Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}
  • Constitution newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=Georgia&county=&city=Atlanta&terms=&frequency=&language=ðnicity=&labor=&material_type=&lccn=&rows=50&sort=date |title=US Newspaper Directory |location=Washington DC |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=October 13, 2013 }}
  • 1869 - Clark College founded.
  • 1870 - Population: 21,789.
  • 1871
  • Horse-drawn streetcar begins operating.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1942|p=241+}}{{sfn|Hornady|1922}}
  • Public school system organized.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1877 - Washington Seminary established.
  • 1878 - Southern Medical College established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1879
  • Augusta Institute moves from Augusta to Atlanta and is renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary.{{Citation |publisher = Basic Civitas Books |isbn = 0465000711 |location = New York |title = Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/1334 |date = 1999 |editor = Anthony Appiah |editor2=Henry Louis Gates |chapter = Morehouse College |page = [https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/1334 1334] }}
  • Atlanta Building and Loan Association established.{{sfn|Brownell|1975}}
  • 1880
  • Abyssinian Library established.{{Citation

|publisher = Government Printing Office

|location = Washington, DC

|title = Statistics of Public Libraries in the United States and Canada |chapter=Georgia

|author = Weston Flint

|date = 1893

|hdl = 2027/mdp.39015034099997

}}

=1900s-1940s=

  • 1901 - Atlanta Theological Seminary established.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1902 - Carnegie Library opens.{{citation |title=Carnegie Library Bulletin |location=Atlanta, Ga. |volume=1 |date=December 1902 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dx0RAAAAIAAJ&pg=PT2 |last1=Atlanta |first1=Carnegie Library of }}
  • 1904 - Atlanta Art Association formed.
  • 1905
  • Atlanta School of Medicine{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} and Associated Charities of Atlanta{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} founded.
  • Atlanta Mutual Insurance Association in business.{{Citation |publisher = Basic Civitas Books |isbn = 0465000711 |location = New York |title = Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |date = 1999 |editor = Anthony Appiah |editor2=Henry Louis Gates |chapter=Atlanta, Georgia |page=[https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/147 147+] }}
  • 1906 - September 22: Atlanta Race Riot kills 27.{{Citation |publisher = Basic Civitas Books |isbn = 0465000711 |location = New York |title = Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/148 |date = 1999 |editor = Anthony Appiah |editor2=Henry Louis Gates |chapter = Atlanta Riot of 1906 |page = [https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/148 148+] }}
  • 1907 - Atlanta Conservatory of Music founded.{{sfn|Hornady|1922}}
  • 1908 - Atlanta Neighborhood Union organized.
  • 1909 - Architectural Arts League of Atlanta organized.{{citation |title=American Art Annual |location=New York |year=1911 |editor=Florence Levy |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000505253 |volume=9 }}
  • 1910
  • Population: 154,839; metro 522,442.
  • Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
  • 1911 - Atlanta Debutante Club founded.
  • 1913
  • Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State.
  • Augusta Institute established founded in 1867 is renamed Morehouse College.
  • 1914
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta established.{{cite web |url=http://www.frbatlanta.org/pubs/atlantafedhistory/index.cfm |title=A History: the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1914-1989 |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |access-date=October 13, 2013}}
  • 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike.{{cite book|editor1= Aaron Brenner |editor2= Benjamin Day |editor3=Immanuel Ness |title=Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History|year=2015 |orig-year=2009 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-45707-7 |chapter= Timeline |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmVsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR17 }}
  • 1915
  • Emory College relocated to Atlanta.
  • November: film The Birth of a Nation premieres.
  • Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta.{{cite book|author= Kenneth T. Jackson |title=The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkgwSauBgTwC |year= 1992 |orig-year=1967 |publisher=Ivan R. Dee |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-4617-3005-7|author-link=Kenneth T. Jackson}}
  • 1916
  • Streetcar strike.{{sfn|Scott|Guynn|2000}}
  • Utopian Literary Club{{cite web |url=http://aafa.galileo.usg.edu/aafa/search |title=Finding Aids For Archives and Manuscripts |publisher=Digital Library of Georgia |author=Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History |access-date=October 13, 2013}} and Atlanta Junior League{{cite web |author=Atlanta History Center |publisher= Digital Library of Georgia |title= Finding Aids For Archives and Manuscripts |url=http://ahc.galileo.usg.edu/ahc/search |access-date=October 31, 2013 |author-link= Atlanta History Center }} founded.
  • 1917 - Great Atlanta fire.
  • 1918 - 1918 influenza epidemic.{{citation |url=http://www.influenzaarchive.org |encyclopedia=American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: a Digital Encyclopedia |title= 50 U.S. Cities and Their Stories: Atlanta |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=February 1, 2016 }} (includes timeline)
  • 1919 - Commission on Interracial Cooperation active.
  • 1920
  • Butler Street YMCA opens.{{cite book|author= Nina Mjagkij |title=Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uyZTCw1WrCYC&pg=PA139 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=0-8131-2801-3 |year=1994 }}
  • Population: 200,616; metro 622,283.
  • 1921 - Atlanta Junior Chamber (JCI Atlanta) established.
  • 1922 - WSB radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1923 - Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
  • 1926 - Atlanta Historical Society founded.
  • 1927 - Atlanta Historical Bulletin begins publication.
  • 1928 - Atlanta World newspaper begins publication.
  • 1929
  • Atlanta University Center Consortium established.
  • City Hall built.
  • January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. is born.
  • WGST radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1930 - Population: 270,366; metro 715,391.
  • 1931 - WATL radio begins broadcasting.
  • 1933 - [http://www.gmanet.com/Default.aspx Georgia Municipal Association] headquartered in city.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
  • 1935 - Cascade Theatre opens.
  • 1936
  • Atlanta Dogwood Festival begins.{{cite web |url=http://www.dogwood.org/History |title=Atlanta Dogwood Festival History |publisher=Atlanta Dogwood Festival |access-date=October 13, 2013}}
  • William B. Hartsfield elected mayor.
  • Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
  • 1937 - WAGA radio begins broadcasting.{{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/225/mode/1up |chapter= Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Georgia }}
  • 1939
  • Plaza Theatre opens.
  • Gone with the Wind world premiere draws 300,000 to streets.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}
  • 1940
  • Euclid Theatre opens.
  • Population: 302,288.
  • 1941 - Central Atlanta Progress established.
  • 1944
  • Atlanta Campaign National Historic Site established.
  • Southern Regional Council and Associated Klans of Georgia{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} headquartered in city.
  • 1945 - Mary Mac's Tea Room in business.
  • 1946
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention founded.
  • December 7: Winecoff Hotel fire.{{cite book|publisher=Facts on File |author= Ross Gregory |title=Cold War America, 1946 To 1990 |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-4381-0798-1 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qjW7OGFEwq8C&pg=PA48 |author-link= Ross Gregory (historian) }}
  • 1947 - Regional Metropolitan Planning Commission established.{{cite web |url=http://www.atlantaregional.com/about-us/overview/history-funding--membership |title=ARC History, Funding and Membership |publisher=Atlanta Regional Commission |access-date=September 12, 2016 }}
  • 1948 - WSB-TV (television) begins broadcasting.
  • 1949
  • WAGA-TV{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations: Georgia |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/798/mode/2up }} and WERD (AM) radio begin broadcasting.
  • Atlanta Negro Voters League founded.{{citation |title=BlackPast.org |location=Seattle, Washington|editor1-link=Quintard Taylor |editor=Quintard Taylor |title-link=BlackPast.org }}
  • Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

=1950s-1990s=

21st century

=2000s=

=2010s=

=2020s=

  • 2021
  • The Atlanta spa shootings occur.{{cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-multiple-shootings-shut-down-busy-woodstock-highway/OLE23RVIO5BE3ELWBZAA6GVSSA/|title=8 killed in metro Atlanta spa shooting spree; suspect captured in South Georgia|publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|last1=Hollis|first1=Henri|last2=Abusaid|first2=Shaddi|last3=Stevens|first3=Alexis|date=March 16, 2021|accessdate=March 16, 2021}}
  • The Atlanta Braves baseball team win the 2021 World Series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/cubs/atlanta-braves-defeat-houston-astros-win-2021-world-series|title = Atlanta Braves defeat Houston Astros to win 2021 World Series| date=3 November 2021 }}

See also

References

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=Published in 19th century=

;1860s-1870s

  • {{Citation |publisher = Intelligencer Book and Job Office |location = Atlanta |author = V. T. Barnwell |title = Barnwell's Atlanta city directory, and strangers' guide |date = 1867 |ol = 22850965M }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory for 1870 |publisher=William R. Hanleiter |year=1870 |location = Atlanta, Georgia |url=https://archive.org/stream/acpl_citydirectories_01_reel01#page/n157/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = William Tegg |location = London |title = Dictionary of Chronology |editor = William Henry Overall |date = 1870 |oclc = 2613202 |chapter=Atlanta |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/44/mode/1up }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory for 1872 |publisher=Plantation Publishing Co. |year=1872 |location = Atlanta, Georgia |url=https://archive.org/stream/acpl_citydirectories_01_reel01#page/n539/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = D. Appleton & Co. |location = New York |title = Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel: the Southern Tour |author=Charles H. Jones |date = 1873 |chapter=Atlanta |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwgyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA149 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Directory of the City of Atlanta for 1877 |publisher=A.E. Sholes |year=1877 |url=https://archive.org/stream/acpl_citydirectories_02_reel02#page/n8/mode/1up }}
  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:illustratedhist01clargoog/Illustrated_History_of_Atlanta |title = Illustrated History of Atlanta |date = 1877 |publisher = J. P. Harrison |author=E.Y. Clarke }}
  • {{cite EB9 |wstitle = Atlanta |volume= 3 |page= 15 |short= 1}}

;1880s-1890s

  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory |publisher=Sholes & Co. |year=1882 |url=https://archive.org/stream/acpl_citydirectories_03_reel03#page/n5/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = C. Scribner's Sons |location = New York |author = Jacob D. Cox |title = Atlanta |date = 1882 |ol = 7223076M }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta: the leader in trade, population, wealth and manufactures in Georgia |author=I.W. Avery |location= Atlanta |publisher= Constitution Publishing Co. |year= 1885 |url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008427930 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = D. Mason & Co. |location = Syracuse, N.Y |author = Wallace Putnam Reed |title = History of Atlanta, Georgia |date = 1889 |ol = 22882278M }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory |publisher=R.L. Polk & Co. |location=Atlanta, Ga. |url=https://archive.org/stream/atlantacitydirec1891polk#page/80/mode/2up |year=1891 }}
  • {{Citation |url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:23685529.4746.emory.edu/The_black_side_electronic_resource_a_partial_history_of_the_business_religious_and_educational_side_ |title = The black side: a partial history of the business, religious and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. |date = 1894 |location = Atlanta |author=E.R. Carter }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory for 1896 |publisher=Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. |year=1896 |url=https://archive.org/stream/atlantacitydirec1896hgsa#page/32/mode/2up }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory for 1898 |publisher=Bullock and Saunders |year=1898 |url=https://archive.org/stream/atlantacitydirec1898vvbu#page/14/mode/2up }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Atlanta City Council |location = Atlanta |url =https://archive.org/stream/handbookofcityof00marti#page/n3/mode/2up |title = Handbook of the City of Atlanta |date = 1898 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Rand, McNally & Co. |date = 1899 |location = Chicago |title = Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/randmcnallycosha07chic#page/118/mode/2up |chapter=City of Atlanta }}

=Published in 20th century=

;1900s-1940s

  • {{Citation

|publisher = W. & R. Chambers

|date = 1901

|location = London |title = Chambers's Encyclopaedia |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency01lond#page/543/mode/1up |chapter=Atlanta }}

  • {{Citation |editor = Edward Young Clarke |title = Atlanta: greatest city of the great South |date = 1902 |ol = 22850070M }}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = Century Memorial Publishing Co. |location = Atlanta |author = Thomas H. Martin |url = https://archive.org/stream/atlantaitsbuilde00mart#page/n5/mode/2up |title = Atlanta and its builders |date = 1902 }}; [https://archive.org/stream/atlantaitsbuilde02mart#page/n7/mode/2up v.2]

  • {{Citation

|location = Atlanta, Ga. |title = Pioneer citizens' history of Atlanta, 1833-1902 |publisher = Pioneer Citizens' Society |date = 1902 |oclc = 1850685 |ol = 6609963M }}

  • {{citation |work=Carnegie Library Bulletin |location=Atlanta, Ga. |volume=1 |number=8 |date=March 1903 |title=Finding List Georgia Collection: Atlanta |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dx0RAAAAIAAJ&pg=PT13 |last1=Atlanta |first1=Carnegie Library of }}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory |year=1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/atlantacitydirec1914foot |publisher=Foote & Davies Co. }} [https://archive.org/stream/atlantacitydirec1904foot#page/n7/mode/2up 1904]
  • [https://archive.org/stream/atlantacitydirec1908foot#page/n7/mode/2up 1908 ed.]
  • {{Citation |location = Atlanta |title = Atlanta, a twentieth-century city |publisher = Atlanta Chamber of Commerce |date = 1904 |ol = 22850074M }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Franklin-Turner |location = Atlanta |author = J.D. Cleaton |title = Atlanta: Metropolis of the South |date = 1907 |ol = 24343221M }}
  • {{Citation

| publisher = K. Baedeker | location = Leipzig | edition = 4th | title = United States | date = 1909

| oclc = 02338437 |chapter= Atlanta |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/unitedstateswith00karl#page/570/mode/2up

}}

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Atlanta |volume= 2 |pages = 853–854 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{cite journal |journal=The Modern City

|date=December 1918 |volume=3 |title=Atlanta, Georgia |publisher=League of American Municipalities |hdl=2027/mdp.39015020070325 }}

  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory |publisher=Atlanta City Directory Co. |year=1919 |url=https://archive.org/stream/atlantacitydirec1919atla#page/n11/mode/2up}}
  • {{cite book |title=Atlanta City Directory

|year=1922

|publisher=Atlanta City Directory Company

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}}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = American Cities Book Company |author = John R. Hornady |title = Atlanta: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

|date = 1922

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|ol = 23279317M }}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Smith & Durrell |location = New York |author = Federal Writers' Project |title = Atlanta

|date = 1942

|series= American Guide Series |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/atlantacityofmod00writrich#page/n350/mode/2up

|page=241+

|author-link = Federal Writers' Project }}

;1950s-1990s

  • {{citation |title=Atlanta, Pacesetter City of the South

|year=1969

|volume=135 |work=National Geographic Magazine |location=Washington DC

}}

  • {{cite journal

|title=The Image of 'A City Too Busy to Hate': Atlanta in the 1960s |author= Virginia H. Hein |journal= Phylon |volume= 33

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  • {{Citation

|location = Monticello, Ill. |author = James C. Starbuck |title = Historic Atlanta to 1930: an indexed, chronological bibliography

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  • {{cite journal

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  • {{Citation

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|date = 1977

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = E.P. Dutton |location = New York |title = Encyclopedia of American Cities |date = 1980 |ol=4120668M |editor=Ory Mazar Nergal |chapter=Atlanta, GA }}
  • {{cite book |title=Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 |author=Clarence N. Stone |publisher= University Press of Kansas |year=1989 |isbn=0700604154 |series=Studies in Government and Public Policy }}
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|chapter-url = https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:worldencyclopedi00kuri/World_encyclopedia_of_cities |title = World Encyclopedia of Cities

|date = 1994

|location = Santa Barbara, Calif. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |author=George Thomas Kurian |series=Vol. 1: North America |chapter= Atlanta, Georgia

|ol = 1431653M

}} (fulltext via Open Library)

  • {{cite journal

|title=An International City Too Busy To Hate? Social And Cultural Change In Atlanta: 1970-1995 |author= Rebecca J. Dameron |author2=Arthur D. Murphy |journal=Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development |volume= 26

|issue= 1 |pages= 43–69 |year= 1997

|jstor=40553316

| ref = {{harvid|Dameron|Murphy|1997}}

}}

  • {{Citation

|publisher = Lonely Planet |location = Australia |title = USA

|year= 1999

|ol=19682441M |chapter=Georgia: Atlanta |page=541+ |isbn = 9780864425133 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/usa00lyon#page/540/mode/2up

}}

  • Robert D. Bullard et al., eds (2000). Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press.
  • {{cite journal

|title=The Atlanta Streetcar Strikes |author= Carole E. Scott |author2=Richard D. Guynn |journal= Georgia Historical Quarterly |volume= 84

|issue= 3 |pages= 434–459 |year= 2000

|jstor=40584340

| ref = {{harvid|Scott|Guynn|2000}}

}}

=Published in 21st century=

  • {{cite book

|author=Larry Keating |title=Atlanta: Race, Class And Urban Expansion

|year=2001

|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-4399-0449-7

}}

  • {{cite book |editor=Paul S. Boyer |title=Oxford Companion to United States History |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-508209-8 |chapter=Atlanta |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SgtyKzBes6QC&pg=PA53 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00paul_0 }}
  • {{cite encyclopedia |editor= Richard Pillsbury |title= Geography |volume=2 |encyclopedia=New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |location=Chapel Hill |publisher= University of North Carolina Press |oclc=910189354|year= 2006

|chapter= Atlanta

|page= 153

}}

  • {{cite book

|editor=David Goldfield

|title=Encyclopedia of American Urban History

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4il1AwAAQBAJ

|year=2007

|publisher=Sage

|isbn=978-1-4522-6553-7

|chapter= Atlanta, Georgia

|pages= 50–52

}}

  • {{cite book

|author= Steve Goodson |title=Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_T9HYRHAwkAC|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2930-7 |year= 2007

}}

  • {{cite book|editor= David L. Sjoquist |title=Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City: The Dynamics of Atlanta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iRVaGk2MLYoC|year=2009|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7391-3537-2}} (About economic aspects of city)

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External links

{{Commons category|Atlanta, Georgia}}

  • {{citation |encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=Georgia Humanities Council |title=Atlanta |url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/atlanta }}
  • Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&page_size=100&q=atlanta+georgia Items related to Atlanta], various dates.
  • Europeana. [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=atlanta+georgia&rows=96 Items related to Atlanta, Georgia], various dates.
  • [https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/90078 Utopian Literary Club (Atlanta, Ga.) records, 1927-2004]

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