As to my personal experience, I will only mention that during my two days sojourn at Atlanta, one Negro was stabbed with fatal effect on the street, and three were poisoned, one of whom died.

In addition, he set up the United Negro College Fund for the ongoing education of African Americans, carrying on the family tradition in this area with his grandfather's funding of the education of black women at Spelman College in Atlanta.

Clark Atlanta University is a member of the United Negro College Fund ( UNCF ).

The Atlanta Black Crackers ( originally known as the Atlanta Cubs ) were a professional Negro league baseball team which played during the early-to-mid-20th century.

The team returned to Atlanta in 1940 and rejoined the Negro Southern league.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

This student group, known as the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights ( COAHR ), initiated the Atlanta Student Movement and began to lead in Atlanta with sit-ins starting on March 15, 1960.

The novelty architecture was designed by Hubert Puckett, a Georgia Tech student of architecture, and fabricated by Atlantic Steel in nearby Atlanta ( of which Marietta is a suburb ).

A ragtag group of students decide to resist: Zeke Tyler ( Josh Hartnett ), a loner repeating his senior year, who sells, among other illegal items, a cocaine-like drug of his own creation ; Stan Rosado ( Shawn Hatosy ), a jock who quits the football team during his senior year so he can focus on academics ; Stan's girlfriend Delilah Profitt ( Jordana Brewster ), the vindictive editor in chief of the student paper ; Casey Connor ( Elijah Wood ), a photographer for the paper with a crush on Delilah ; Stokely ' Stokes ' Mitchell ( Clea DuVall ), a gothic outcast and literary buff who, despite rumors she is a lesbian, has feelings for Stan ; and Marybeth Louise Hutchinson ( Laura Harris ), a new girl at school, who just moved from Atlanta to live with relatives because her parents died in a car crash.

George P. Burdell and equally fictitious Agnes Scott College student Ramona Cartwright announced their engagement in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1958, a prank by Agnes Scott's senior class.

More recently, Burdell has participated in music and politics ; George P. is a longstanding staff member of WREK, the Georgia Tech student radio station, and he played baritone on the 1995 album Jesus Christ Superstar: A Resurrection, which was made in Atlanta by musicians from the Atlanta alternative scene.

McNeill grew up in Atlanta, and began his career acting in local and regional productions before becoming a student at The Juilliard School in New York City.

* Two Bits Man, an unidentified author of the humor and college commentary column " Two Bits " in The Technique, the student newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Instead of actually enrolling into a college, Bob found a job at the Atlanta University, which became his equivalent experience as if he was a student on campus – from the interview from his sister, he was able to gain a vast amount of knowledge due to his knowledge-packed environment.

A Flat Stanley mailed to Richmond, Virginia, sent as a visitor as part of the Flat Stanley project from a student in Atlanta, Georgia

The station previously broadcast a very diverse college radio format, but now broadcasts the GPB radio feed from Atlanta, with some student specialty shows.

While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).

The university has two student run media organizations at its Savannah and Atlanta campuses.

The Technique, also known as the " Nique ," is the official student newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia and has referred to itself as " the South's liveliest college newspaper " since 1945.

New facilities on the Atlanta campus include academic buildings for the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology, the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics, the Tift College of Education, and the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing as well as a large student housing complex.

* The Voices Across the Color Line: The Atlanta Student Movement exhibit explores the 1960s Civil Rights movement through photographs, documents, videos, and contemporary oral history interviews with Atlanta student leaders.

High school student Grant Emerson had just moved with his parents to a new home in suburban Atlanta.

Peterson was a student at the Atlanta Institute of Music when he joined the band at the age of 19.

As a student at Clark Atlanta University, a historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia, the Miami, Florida-born Stroud was a center and power forward on the Panthers ' basketball team.

It was in Atlanta that he met his future wife, Catherine Wood, a student at Agnes Scott College whom he married in 1936.

He then travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, where he visited with his friend Ian Macauley who was active in the anti-segregation movement.

The other notable bands from the Atlanta Hardcore movement are Out Crowd, and BAD.

Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, led by Philip Kennedy and Roy Bakay, were first to install a brain implant in a human that produced signals of high enough quality to simulate movement.

Currently Dr. Errico leads Tuesday night Bible studies at Hillside International Truth Center, a church in Atlanta, Georgia associated with the metaphysical New Thought movement.

Charging that the Occupy movement was the subject of a " coordinated national crackdown ," NLG lawyers filed actions in Boston, New York City, San Diego, Fort Myers, Atlanta, and other cities seeking the temporary prohibition of site removal efforts.

King, Sr. led the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia and became a leader of the civil rights movement, as the head of the NAACP chapter in Atlanta and of the Civic and Political League.

King Sr. was a major figure in the civil rights movement in Georgia, where he rose to become the head of the NAACP in Atlanta and the Civic and Political League.

The visitor center contains a museum that chronicles the American civil rights movement which follows the parallel paths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr .. A firehouse ( Fire Station No. 6 ), built in 1894, served the Sweet Auburn community until 1991, and now contains a gift shop and an exhibit on desegregation in the Atlanta Fire Department.

Fager moved to Atlanta, Georgia in late summer 1964, and soon became active in the Civil Rights movement.

Upon relocating to Atlanta, he partnered with DJ Drama, brokering a label deal for the Aphilliates Music Group, a burgeoning brand which positioned itself at the forefront of the Southern Hip-Hop movement and is also home to his younger brother Willie The Kid, the label ’ s flagish artist.

The jury said it found the court `` has incorporated into its operating procedures the recommendations '' of two previous grand juries, the Atlanta Bar Association and an interim citizens committee.

One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.

The Atlanta Falcons Football Club received its nickname on August 29, 1965.

Carolina played Atlanta in its first ever game, losing 23-20 in overtime.

* 1939 – Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

In 2007 the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association ( ECPA ) recognized the Left Behind series at its CBA & ECPA Awards Celebration in Atlanta, Georgia with the ECPA Pinnacle Award.

Then in 1965, a group in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.

After achieving a record of 13 – 0 with their win over the Atlanta Falcons, it marked the Saints ' best start to a season in its franchise history.

In 1950, the NBA consolidated to eleven franchises, a process that continued until 1953 – 54, when the league reached its smallest size of eight franchises, all of which are still in the league ( the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Royals / Kings, Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, and Nationals / 76ers ).

Through this period, the NBA continued to strengthen with the shift of the Minneapolis Lakers to Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Warriors to San Francisco, the Syracuse Nationals to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and the St. Louis Hawks moving to Atlanta, as well as the addition of its first expansion franchises.

* Atlanta from the Ashes ( The Phoenix ), monument symbolizing Atlanta's rise after its burning in the American Civil War

This is cooler than its southern neighbor Dallas, Texas, and while similar to Atlanta, Georgia, it has warmer summertime temperatures.

After five years, CNN outgrew its home, a former country club on the outskirts of Midtown, Atlanta.

* Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.

The novel Telemachus Sneezed by the character Atlanta Hope with its catchphrase " What is John Guilt?

The Wheel of Time now has its own annual convention, JordanCon, which has been held annually in Atlanta, GA since 2009.

Atlanta is the state's capital and its most populous city.

The SCLC, with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, did not attempt to create a network of chapters as the NAACP did.

Cisco became a major provider of Voice over IP to enterprises, and is now moving into the home user market through its acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and Linksys.

Portman would develop a similar multiblock complex at San Francisco's Embarcadero Center ( 1970s ), which unlike its Atlanta counterpart, heavily emphasized pedestrian activity at street level.

In the past few years the county has seen a housing boom due to its proximity to Lake Oconee as well as major employment centers such as Atlanta, Athens, and Macon.

Seattle made their first finals appearance since winning it all in 2004 and Atlanta, coming into the playoffs as a four seed, impressively swept its opponents in the first two rounds to advance to the Finals in only the third year of the team's existence.

Comfort Eagle itself was released on July 24, 2001, to good reviews ; Michael D. Clark of The Houston Chronicle described it as " Cake at its best ", while a reviewer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the album's songs were " among the best of the band's career ", praising McCrea for widening his vocal repertoire.