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City Page: Atlanta

Founded in 1837 as Terminus—the new city marked the end of the line for the Western & Atlantic Railroad—Atlanta is now the unrivaled commercial and cultural capital of the modern South. Click any article below to learn more about the city that influences everything.

Midtown Skyline

Photograph by Daniel Mayer

Ivan Allen Jr., 1968

Ivan Allen Jr.

1911-2003
A variety of brightly-colored block prints that say "The American Music Show" in capital letters.

The American Music Show

Atlanta Skyline

Atlanta

Atlanta Crackers Baseball Diamond

Atlanta Black Crackers

African Americans at 1895 Cotton States Exposition

Atlanta Compromise Speech

Second Atlanta International Pop Festival, 1970

Atlanta International Pop Festivals

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Offices

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

AJC
Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance members gather for a softball game

Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance

ALFA
Atlanta Negro Voters League, 1949

Atlanta Negro Voters League

ANVL
Le Petit Journal

Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906

Members of the Atlanta Rhythm Section—(left to right) J.R. Cobb, Ronnie Hammond, Barry Bailey, Paul Goddard, Robert Nix, and Dean Daughtry—stand before a sign indicating the Doraville city limits.

Atlanta Rhythm Section

Black and white photograph of Eldrin Bell during a press conference about the Atlanta Youth Murders

Atlanta Youth Murders

Sweet Auburn

Auburn Avenue

Sweet Auburn
Julian Bond

Julian Bond

1940-2015
H. Rap Brown

H. Rap Brown

b. 1943
Triple L Movement Leaders

Bus Desegregation in Atlanta

Carter Center

Carter Center

A black and white drawing of the Chattahoochee Brick Company site, with a caption reading, "Works at Chattahoochee Brick Company on Southern Railway. Capacity 200,000 per day."

Chattahoochee Brick Company

Pearl Cleage

Pearl Cleage

b. 1948
Coca-Cola Delivery Truck

Coca-Cola Company

Fox Theatre Auditorium

Fox Theatre

Grant Park

Grant Park

Great Speckled Bird

Great Speckled Bird

Angelo Herndon

Angelo Herndon Case

High Museum of Art

High Museum of Art

Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls

Springvale Park

Inman Park

Signed portrait of Graham Jackson Sr.

Graham Jackson Sr.

1903-1983
Maynard Jackson’s Inauguration

Maynard Jackson

1938-2003
Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones

b. 1970
King Center

King Center

Antonio “L.A.” Reid

LaFace Records

Mills B. Lane Jr.

Mills B. Lane Jr.

1912-1989
Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich

b. 1960
MARTA

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

MARTA
Wimbish House

Midtown Atlanta

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

1900-1949
Color photograph of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta.

National Center for Civil and Human Rights

1996 Olympic Games

Olympic Games in 1996

Red circular sticker of the Olympics Out of Cobb County grassroots movement sticker. The sticker also says "the world is watching" and names the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Olympics Out of Cobb

OOOC
Atlanta Memorial Arts Center

Orly Air Crash of 1962

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994)

OutKast

James and Robert Paschal

Paschal’s Restaurant

Hyatt Regency Hotel

John Portman

1924-2017
Priscilla the Pink Pig

Rich’s Department Store

A young RuPaul leans against a Peachtree Street sign outside of a Krystal restaurant in Atlanta in 1988.

RuPaul

b. 1960
Techwood Homes Dedication

Techwood Homes

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