Timeline of Atlanta
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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19th century
20th century
1900s-1940s
1950s-1990s
- 1950
- 1952 - Buckhead annexed.
- 1953 - Links chapter established.[25]
- 1956 - Alexander Memorial Coliseum opens.
- 1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference headquartered in city.[36]
- 1958
- 1959 - Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated.
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964 - Atlanta Track Club established.
- 1966 - State of Georgia Building constructed.
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
- Coronet Theater[32] and Perimeter freeway open.
- Afro-American Police League chapter established.[22]
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972 - Sister city relationships established with Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[40]
- 1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor of Atlanta.
- 1974
- Sevananda Natural Foods Market in business.[42]
- Sister city relationships established with Lagos, Nigeria; Taipei, Taiwan; and Toulouse, France.[40]
- 1975 - Centennial Tower built.
- 1976
- 1977
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984 - Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival begins.
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1990 - Population: 394,017;[46] metro 2,959,950.
- 1991
- 1992
- 1994 - Sister city relationships established with Bucharest, Romania;[40] and Ancient Olympia, Greece.
- 1995
- 1996
- 1998
- City website online (approximate date).[48]
- Sister city relationship established with Nuremberg, Germany.[40]
- 1999
21st century
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 117, OL 6112221M
- ↑ George White (1849), Statistics of the State of Georgia, Savannah: W. Thorne Williams, OCLC 1349061
- ↑ "Atlanta History - Tours of Atlanta". www.toursofatlanta.com. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
- ↑ Adiel Sherwood (1860), Gazetteer of Georgia (4th ed.), Macon, Ga: S. Boykin
- ↑ "Timeline of the American Civil War". Britain and the American Civil War. Online Exhibitions. British Library. 2013.
- 1 2 3 Cooper, Official History of Fulton County
- ↑ Davis, What the Yankee's Did to Us
- ↑ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- 1 2 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (1999), "Morehouse College", Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, New York: Basic Civitas Books, p. 1334, ISBN 0465000711
- ↑ Weston Flint (1893), "Georgia", Statistics of Public Libraries in the United States and Canada, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
- ↑ "About Us". Atlanta: Ebenezer Baptist Church. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ Andrew F. Smith (2011). "Chronology". Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-39393-8.
- 1 2 3 Atlanta History Center. "Finding Aids For Archives and Manuscripts". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- ↑ "American and Western Photographic Societies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1890
- ↑ U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor (1907), Statistics of Cities Having a Population of Over 30,000, Washington, DC
- ↑ Nell Irvin Painter (2006). "Timelines". Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. Oxford University Press. p. 361+. ISBN 978-0-19-513755-2.
- 1 2 3 4 Nina Mjagkij, ed. (2001), Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, ISBN 9780815323099
- ↑ Atlanta, Carnegie Library of (December 1902), Carnegie Library Bulletin 1, Atlanta, Ga.
- 1 2 Florence Levy, ed. (1911), American Art Annual 9, New York
- 1 2 3 Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. "Finding Aids For Archives and Manuscripts". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (1999), "Atlanta Riot of 1906", Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, New York: Basic Civitas Books, p. 148+, ISBN 0465000711
- ↑ "A History: the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 1914-1989". Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ "50 U.S. Cities and Their Stories: Atlanta", American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: a Digital Encyclopedia (University of Michigan), retrieved February 2016 (includes timeline)
- ↑ Nina Mjagkij (1994). Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2801-3.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Atlanta, GA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Atlanta Dogwood Festival History". Atlanta Dogwood Festival. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ Ross Gregory (2003). "Chronology". Cold War America, 1946 To 1990. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-0798-1.
- 1 2 Quintard Taylor (ed.), BlackPast.org, Seattle, Washington
- 1 2 Robert L. Harris Jr.; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (2013). "Chronology". Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51087-5.
- 1 2 3 4 Pluralism Project. "Atlanta, Georgia". Directory of Religious Centers. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Cases: United States". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Pennsylvania: Swarthmore College. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "List of Atlanta's 18 Sister Cities". City of Atlanta, GA. Retrieved December 2015.
- ↑ "NCGA Co-ops: Georgia". Iowa: National Cooperative Grocers Association.
- ↑ "Founders". National Conference of Black Mayors. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
- ↑ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts. H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583.
- ↑ Michael Barone; Chuck McCutcheon (2011). Almanac of American Politics 2012. Washington, D.C.: National Journal Group. ISBN 978-0-226-03807-0.
- ↑ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ "Blighted Cities", CQ Researcher 20, 2010 (subscription required)
- ↑ "City of Atlanta Web Site". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas (2010)". US Census Bureau. 2012.
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
- 1860s-1870s
- V. T. Barnwell (1867), Barnwell's Atlanta city directory, and strangers' guide, Atlanta: Intelligencer Book and Job Office
- Atlanta City Directory for 1870. Atlanta, Georgia: William R. Hanleiter. 1870.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870), "Atlanta", Dictionary of Chronology, London: William Tegg, OCLC 2613202
- Atlanta City Directory for 1872. Atlanta, Georgia: Plantation Publishing Co. 1872.
- Charles H. Jones (1873), "Atlanta", Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel: the Southern Tour, New York: D. Appleton & Co.
- Directory of the City of Atlanta for 1877. A.E. Sholes. 1877.
- E.Y. Clarke (1877), Illustrated History of Atlanta, J. P. Harrison
- 1880s-1890s
- Atlanta City Directory. Sholes & Co. 1882.
- Jacob D. Cox (1882), Atlanta, New York: C. Scribner's Sons
- I.W. Avery (1885). Atlanta: the leader in trade, population, wealth and manufactures in Georgia. Atlanta: Constitution Publishing Co.
- Wallace Putnam Reed (1889), History of Atlanta, Georgia, Syracuse, N.Y: D. Mason & Co.
- Atlanta City Directory. Atlanta, Ga.: R.L. Polk & Co. 1891.
- E.R. Carter (1894), The black side: a partial history of the business, religious and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga., Atlanta
- Atlanta City Directory for 1896. Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. 1896.
- Atlanta City Directory for 1898. Bullock and Saunders. 1898.
- Handbook of the City of Atlanta, Atlanta: Atlanta City Council, 1898
- "City of Atlanta", Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States, Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899
Published in the 20th century
- 1900s-1940s
- "Atlanta", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
- Edward Young Clarke, ed. (1902), Atlanta: greatest city of the great South
- Thomas H. Martin (1902), Atlanta and its builders, Atlanta: Century Memorial Publishing Co. ; v.2
- Pioneer citizens' history of Atlanta, 1833-1902, Atlanta, Ga.: Pioneer Citizens' Society, 1902, OCLC 1850685
- Atlanta, Carnegie Library of (March 1903), "Finding List Georgia Collection: Atlanta", Carnegie Library Bulletin (Atlanta, Ga.) 1 (8)
- Atlanta City Directory. Foote & Davies Co. 1904
- Atlanta, a twentieth-century city, Atlanta: Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, 1904
- J.D. Cleaton (1907), Atlanta: Metropolis of the South, Atlanta: Franklin-Turner
- "Atlanta", United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- "Atlanta", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- "Atlanta, Georgia". The Modern City (League of American Municipalities) 3. December 1918.
- Atlanta City Directory. Atlanta City Directory Co. 1919.
- Atlanta City Directory. 1922.
- John R. Hornady (1922), Atlanta: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, American Cities Book Company
- Federal Writers' Project (1942), "Chronology", Atlanta, American Guide Series, New York: Smith & Durrell, p. 241+
- 1950s-1990s
- "Atlanta, Pacesetter City of the South", National Geographic Magazine (Washington DC) 135, 1969
- Virginia H. Hein (1972). "The Image of 'A City Too Busy to Hate': Atlanta in the 1960's". Phylon 33. JSTOR 273521.
- James C. Starbuck (1974), Historic Atlanta to 1930: an indexed, chronological bibliography, Monticello, Ill., OCLC 933763
- Blaine A. Brownell (1975). "Commercial-Civic Elite and City Planning in Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans in the 1920s". Journal of Southern History 41. JSTOR 2206403.
- George J. Lankevich (1977), Howard B. Furer, ed., Atlanta: a chronological & documentary history, 1813-1976, American Cities Chronology Series, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, ISBN 0379006189
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Atlanta, GA", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- Clarence N. Stone (1989). Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988. Studies in Government and Public Policy. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700604154.
- George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Atlanta, Georgia", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (fulltext via Open Library)
- Rebecca J. Dameron and Arthur D. Murphy (1997). "An International City Too Busy To Hate? Social And Cultural Change In Atlanta: 1970-1995". Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 26. JSTOR 40553316.
- Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (1999), "Atlanta", Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, New York: Basic Civitas Books, p. 147+, OL 43540M
- "Georgia: Atlanta", USA, Australia: Lonely Planet, 1999, p. 541+, OL 19682441M
Published in the 21st century
- Robert D. Bullard et al., eds (2000). Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press.
- Carole E. Scott and Richard D. Guynn (2000). "The Atlanta Streetcar Strikes". Georgia Historical Quarterly 84. JSTOR 40584340.
- Larry Keating (2001). Atlanta: Race, Class And Urban Expansion. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0449-7.
- Paul S. Boyer, ed. (2001). "Atlanta". Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508209-8.
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Coordinates: 33°45′18″N 84°23′24″W / 33.755°N 84.39°W / 33.755; -84.39