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America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy

America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.

Hardcover

Black American HistoryGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1541601998
ISBN13: 9781541601994
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Nov 14 2023
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca
 
Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan's sacred Imperial City.

America's Black Capital chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement. What drove them, historian Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar shows, was the belief that Black uplift would be best advanced by forging Black institutions. America's Black Capital is an inspiring story of Black achievement against all odds, with effects that reached far beyond Georgia, shaping the nation's popular culture, public policy, and politics.

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