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During the 1960's sixty thousand whites moved out of Atlanta and seventy thousand Blacks moved in. A majority of the city's population and three quarters of its school enrollment was Black. A change in Black employment began to be seen in the 1970's as increasing numbers of Black female workers left domestic household service positions and gained employment in the mills at typewriters of the rapidly expanding service industries such as government, finance and insurance. Atlanta Blacks, it appears from findings, have always demanded a piece of the action whether given their share of not. As early as the end of World War II Black veterans in Atlanta marched on city hall demanding fairer law enforcement and the hiring of Blacks on the police force. Even before the Southern Christian Leadership Conference established its headquarters in Atlanta, a group of the city's younger and progressive Blacks formed The Committee for Cooperative Action to foster a more progressive approach to civil rights by advocating a plan for a revolt against conservative politics. In 1969 Maynard Jackson, a young Black lawyer won election as vice mayor in Atlanta and four years later became mayor. The Reverend Andrew J. Young, one of Dr. King's top aides during the civil rights struggle desegregated the Georgia congressional delegation by winning the Atlanta Bases fifth congressional district seat in the United States House Representative in 1972. He later served as the U.S. Delegate to the United Nation and at this writing has been elected as Mayor of Atlanta. Atlanta's Blacks are proud of their city and rightly so as no Eastern or Northern urban center can eclipse their accomplishment in terms of the number of Blacks in city government. In addition to a Black Mayor, Atlanta's city council is 50% Black. There is Black Commissioner of Public Safety, a Black President of the Board of Education and a Black Police Commissioner. Atlantians also point with pride to the accomplishment of a native son, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who dreamed of a world where all people could live in the true spirit of brotherhood. Dr. King the most renown spokesman of the civil rights movement in Georgia and the nation was the son and grandson of Baptist ministers. Dr. King prepared to follow in the footsteps of his father. A graduate of Morehouse Continued on page 440 [[5 images]] [[captions]] Malcolm Henderson Alexander Lockett, Nix, Reddick, Patrick [[/captions]] 433
