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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 13 Atlantas in the U. S., but only one mattered last week.* Atlanta, Ga. was the place where Gone With the Wind opened (see p. 30); where Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh passed by and the Negroes said: "I seen 'em!"; where Banker Robert Strickland wept for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In the beginning, in 1836, Atlanta was the spot of red clay where one Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

For booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

There was not money enough in the Carolinas for all the Negro folk, so Benjamin and Pearl Mason drifted north to Philadelphia. Ben washed cars in a garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Lawyer Alexander figured the project was an investment which would give the Masons 6% on their money. To Pearl it was a place where it wouldn't rain right in on Negroes huddled around a kitchen stove. They named it Frances Plaza, after their daughter. But Pearl was convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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