Word: atlantan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans...
...awards indicated the stylistic range of the show, which was held together by what one Atlantan called "an almost frightening racial strength and feeling." Brooklyn's Merton Simpson won the top landscape prize with a near-abstraction called Landscape Symphony. Top money-winner ($300) was String Dance, a relatively academic study by Walter A. Simon, teacher at Virginia State College...