America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy by Jeffrey O.G. OgbarRead about another entry on the list.
In an artfully told and richly detailed narrative, Ogbar complicates African American history by highlighting Atlanta’s early emergence as a powerhouse of Black economic and political life despite its location in the heart of a neo-Confederate stronghold. Subject to relentless persecution, Black Atlantans developed a philosophy of self-reliance that, Ogbar shows, interacted in dynamic ways with later civil rights activism.
The Page 99 Test: America's Black Capital.
--Marshal Zeringue
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