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...single most important piece of civil rights legislation, other than the constitutional amendments, in the history of the country." So says Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, referring to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. First proposed by Lyndon Johnson, the act was passed overwhelmingly by Congress after a voting rights drive in Selma, Ala., led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had ended in violent clashes between blacks and white police. The landmark law, which was renewed in 1970 and 1975, abolished literacy tests, forbade any other barriers to the registration of black voters and required six Southern states with...
...Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, coordinator of the local investigation. Not so, said he: "If we had a case that was solvable, you can be assured that we would have made that arrest." If the commissioner was annoyed about that possibly careless FBI disclosure, his boss, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, was incensed. In a letter to the FBI director, Jackson suggested that Webster "consider the impact of your casual press statements, [which] undermine the public's confidence in our investigation and create a great deal of misdirected media speculation and invective." Added Jackson: "We need Washington...
...community activist who helped organize the group. Nevertheless, police arrested Jenga and four others and charged them with carrying firearms illegally. The patrol has since agreed to stick to bats. Atlanta officials maintain that the vigilantes do not have the support of most of their neighbors. Says Mayor Maynard Jackson: "These things are upsetting people who are already distraught. This is rubbing salt into the wound...
Before the murders, Atlanta had enjoyed a period of relative prosperity, good national publicity and racial harmony. In 1974 Maynard Jackson became the first black big-city mayor in the Deep South. Today Atlanta has an impressive skyline and the country's largest airport -but also an array of typical urban problems. Though it ranks 33rd in population, Atlanta has the nation's third highest number of public housing units. Some 23% of Atlantans live below the poverty level, a percentage that is nearly double the national average. Blacks now constitute 66% of the city's population...
...schools not as well-endowed as Harvard--and I understand these issues are even being discussed there--financial aid over the next few years will have to change or it will eventually cut into academic quality." Maynard added...