ss Warfare in Black Atlanta : Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification

Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed.Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black working-class voters.The demographics of the city shifted in the late '60s and early '70s, and the combination of Black empowerment and white flight produced a growing Black working-class majority that increasingly demanded Black Power policies that often clashed with the policies supported by affluent residents.But by the 2010s, Atlanta's city core had been thoroughly gentrified, and the ability of Black working-class Atlantans to organize and build power had diminished significantly. Tracing the history of post-civil rights Black Atlanta through rigorous class analysis, Augustus Wood argues that Black and white elites responded to an energized and politicized Black working class by forging a public-private partnership power bloc in Atlanta, positioning the relatively small but rising Black middle class as partici