historian, Social scientist, africana studies scholar, social justice champion and author of the award-winning monograph
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
in his own words...
"Grappling with the historiography of the new African American urban history and American Civil Rights/Black Power/Black Freedom movement while simultaneously reckoning with the rise of neo-liberalism, The Legend of the Black Mecca tells an intra-racial narrative history of Atlanta that details Black political and class tensions in the modern urban South."
From a city of humble beginnings as a station on the Western and Atlantic Railroad lines, to its current booming economy and continued resurgence as an African American business thoroughfare, Atlanta is an American city like no other. African American Studies Historian Professor, Maurice Hobson, Ph.D.