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City boosters had imagined that Atlanta had outgrown the sordid history of race relations of the American South. The cooperation between the black city government and the white business elite ...

(JTA) — Sam Massell was Atlanta’s first Jewish mayor ... showed he had 10 percent support among white voters and 90 percent support among Black voters. He had campaigned in Black communities ...