White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Modern America)

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Modern America)

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, how…

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