America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the ...

The remarkable story of how Atlanta was transformed, how African Americans turned the heart of the Confederacy into a Mecca of sorts for Black folk. Not without it’s bloody and history — for sixty years after the Civil War, the city was still considered the heartland of the KKK. This chronicles how amidst fervent white nationalism Black excellence emerged and the city produced some of the most notable and successful African American excellence — against all odds. Efforts for excellence whose effects reached far beyond Georgia — a place that was central towards the fight for civil rights, shaping the nation’s poplar culture, public policy and politics.