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New Georgia Encyclopedia: William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971) William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta. On December 31, 1951, Hartsfield was elected vice president of the American Municipal Association, the national organization of mayors, and later served as its president. Atlanta tripled in size from 37 to 128 square miles, which added an estimated 100,000 people to the city's population. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-599   (1260 words)

[No title] The Mayors of Atlanta and New York City held a news conference this afternoon to outline an attack against illegal guns. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are two of 52 mayors across the country that form a coalition to fight illegal guns in their cities. Mayor Franklin says she is exploring the possibility of filing a lawsuit, but it might not be right for Atlanta. www.11alive.com /rss/article.aspx?storyid=80949   (384 words)

[No title] I regret to inform you of the death of former Mayor Maynard Holbrook Jackson this morning in Washington, DC. Born in Dallas, Texas, on March 23, 1938, the third of six children, Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr., was considered to be a member of the "Black aristocracy." His father, Maynard Jackson, Sr., was a Baptist minister and his mother, Irene (Dobbs) Jackson, was a college language teacher with a doctorate in French. In spring 1973, Jackson entered a multi-candidate race for mayor where his toughest opponent proved to be the incumbent, Sam Massell, a certified liberal and the city's first Jewish mayor. www.atlantahapps.com /maynard_jackson.htm   (1487 words)

African-American Experience--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary The history of African Americans in Atlanta is synonymous with the history of Atlanta itself, and is one of progress and perseverance. The Atlanta City Council later that year vowed equal application of laws to whites and fls, and a school for fl children, the first in the city, opened in an old church building on Armstrong Street. Beginning with Maynard Jackson in 1974, the mayors of Atlanta have all since been African Americans, including current mayor Shirley Franklin, who upon her election in 2001, became the first fl female mayor of a major southern city. www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/africanamerican.htm   (2092 words)

The Phoenix Falling by Gail Jarvis The Mayor used his superb negotiation skills to unite all segments of the population in order to create a city "too busy to hate." When he left office in 1961, his legacy to the citizens of Atlanta was a model city, one that was still on the rise. In retrospect, Mayor Campbell’s shady administration was the culmination of a gradual lessening of ethics that began with Maynard Jackson’s administration in the 1970s. These problems were the result of "years of mismanagement and neglect" that must be laid at the feet of Atlanta’s mayors and their appointees. www.lewrockwell.com /jarvis/jarvis74.html   (1632 words)

City of Atlanta Online Mayor Shirley Franklin will be elected President of the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) during the association’s annual meeting in Savannah Tuesday, June 27, 2006. It is the first time an Atlanta mayor has served as president of GMA since Mayor William B. Hartsfield in 1944. Mayor Franklin has played a large role in the Metro Atlanta Mayors Association (MAMA) and also served on GMA’s sales tax negotiations task force and most recently served as chairman of the Legislative Policy Council. www.atlantaga.gov /media/nr_gmaelected_062606.aspx   (208 words)

World Mayor: Commenting on Shirley Franlin - Mayor of Atlanta Mayor Franklin has brought dignity back to the office and is helping to strengthen the city's infrastructure by improving the sewers of the city. Her first task as Mayor was to fill a budget gap of $82 million and deliver the 2002 balanced budget to the city council. Even though Atlanta is a mini New York and may not have all the amenities and space of a larger city, she operates the city so that it is attractive, economically sound, promising with careers and expansion of Atlanta's cultural makeup. www.worldmayor.com /voting05/comments_atlanta.html   (2852 words)

AYSPS Annual Report 2003-Research Atlanta Research Atlanta was contacted by various nonprofits and interest groups about conducting a record number of client studies in 2003, many of which may be forthcoming in 2004. Research Atlanta helped facilitate GMA’s commitment to housing staff on an ongoing basis with the MAMA group, and Research Atlanta plans to be available for their research needs. Research Atlanta originated on the premise that an informed citizenry engaged in serious debate about the problems affecting their community is essential for good public policy decisions. aysps.gsu.edu /ar2003/units/researchatlanta.htm   (1293 words)

City Newsbytes: The Official E-Newsletter for the City of Atlanta Mayor Franklin said, “There was broad consensus that acquiring the papers was a good idea and it would be a risky endeavor. Mayor Franklin is the first Atlanta mayor to serve as GMA president since Mayor William B. Hartsfield in 1944. Mayor Franklin has also been active in the Metro Atlanta Mayors Association (MAMA), served on GMA’s sales tax negotiations task force and most recently served as chairman of the GMA Legislative Policy Council. www.atlantaga.gov /media/citynewsbytes_062706.aspx   (1946 words)

Atlanta, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Atlanta (IPA: /ˌætˈlɛ̃n.nə/ or /ˌɛtˈlɛ̃n.nə/) is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Georgia, and the central city of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States. Atlanta is recognized as one of the driving forces of the "New South," and has in recent years, along with Houston, Miami and Dallas, undergone a transition from a city of regional commerce to a city of international influence. Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as "the Perimeter" which has come to mark the boundary between the interior of the region and its surrounding suburbs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia   (7982 words)

Is there a white conspiracy to keep power out of the hands of Atlanta blacks?: Cover Story: Cover: Creative Loafing ... In assessing blame for his own political misfortunes, Atlanta's mayor, Bill Campbell, has leveled similar invective at opponents of the city's affirmative action program, as well as at reporters, political adversaries and his critics in the business community. And the leadership of Atlanta's large corporations also is more itinerant than it once was, so CEOs don't have a chance to become enmeshed in decades worth of city politics as they did in the days of mayors William Hartsfield or Ivan Allen. The federal money Mayor Andrew Young poured into Underground Atlanta is one example where the city dumped dollars into a downtown project rather than into the expanse of the long-neglected poor and middle-class predominantly fl neighborhoods that stretch west, east and south from downtown. atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2001-01-20/cover.html   (2935 words)

List of mayors of Atlanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of mayors of Atlanta in the state of Georgia in the United States. The term of office was one year until Hammock's second term when a new city charter changed it to two years. Though a political party is listed where known, the mayoral election is officially non-partisan, so the candidate did not represent their party when elected. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Atlanta   (154 words)

Leadership At Its Best Atlanta mayors, only William Hartsfield, who served 23 years, had a tenure at City Hall that exceeded Jackson's dozen years. That Atlanta suddenly had a Jewish mayor (Sam Massell) and a fl vice mayor provided not only fodder for jokes about "kosher chitlins," but also evidence that the South's biggest and fastest-growing city might also be its most enlightened. By 1973, the acceleration of white flight, and the continued influx of fl residents, elevated Atlanta's fl population to nearly 50 percent. www.leadershipaib.com /news2.html   (2124 words)

Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau - 50 Fun Things To Do In Atlanta The 100-year old Atlanta Cyclorama tells the history of the 1864 Battle of Atlanta through a massive circular painting and narrated dialogue. The Atlanta Falcons has a host of exciting game-day experiences and affordable family ticket packages for the fans. The Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton is an 87-acre racing complex hosting NASCAR and ARCA events in March and November and Indy-car racing in August. www.atlanta.net /50funthings/index1.htm   (647 words)

Georgia Institute of Technology :: Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Ivan Allen created a 6-point development program for the scity of Atlanta during his term as president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Make a timeline of Atlanta listing all the mayors of Atlanta and their terms of office. Draw a map of Atlanta and highlight/color the structures, transportation systems, and areas of the city that were built or improvement during his/her term www.iac.gatech.edu /legacy/nm1.htm   (370 words)

TheStoryGroup.com: Former mayors part of PR campaign for MOST Former Atlanta mayors Andrew Young and Sam Massell will be the lead singers in a chorus of business and political leaders in a public relations campaign to persuade city of Atlanta voters to say yes to the 1-cent Municipal Option Sales Tax (MOST) July 20. Mayor Shirley Franklin can’t use city money to influence voters in an election and she also is limited in how she can campaign for the sales tax, which will be used to help fund the city’s required water and sewer system fixes. Although the mayor has the support of the Concerned Black Clergy for her campaign, she also has a couple of formidable opponents, namely the Fulton County Taxpayers Association and the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board. www.the-stories.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:3578   (398 words)

TheStoryGroup.com: Atlanta celebrates the Olympics + 10 Mayor Shirley Franklin proclaimed last Saturday, July 15, another “great opening day for Atlanta,” as a roll call of dignitaries and volunteers from Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic Games gathered for the grand opening of the Centennial Olympic Games Museum at the Atlanta History Center. With the heat reaching into the 90s, Billy Payne, the man who had the dream of bringing the Olympics to Atlanta and the most honored during the morning ceremonies, reminded folks he was the one that told the world it is 75 degrees in Atlanta in the summer. Franklin acknowledged the ground work done by former Atlanta mayors Sam Massell, who was in the audience, Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young, who served as co-chair for the Olympics but was ill and could not attend the event last Saturday. www.the-stories.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:6937   (757 words)

Atlanta Mayors Drug Prevention Conference Resolution: 1995 We, the Mayors of the United States of America, We, the nation's mayors, reject all proposals to legalize illicit drugs. We, the Mayors of the United States of America, commit ourselves to reducing drug abuse by mobilizing our citizens and concentrating our resources to prevent this behavior and treat this disease. www.dpna.org /about/resolutions/atlantares.htm   (1260 words)

City Mayors: Mayor of Atlanta In this position she was instrumental in the development of such legacies as the Centennial Olympic Park and served as ACOG’s primary liaison with various labor unions, civil rights groups, neighborhood/community organizations, and environmentalists. If you know of mayors who have the vision, passion and skills to make their cities amazing places to live in, work in and visit nominate him or her now for World Mayor 2006. This year, as in 2004 and 2005, the World Mayor project is seeking out mayors who have the vision, passion and skills to make their cities amazing places to live in, work in and visit. www.citymayors.com /usa/atlanta.html   (952 words)

AYSPS Annual Report 2005-Research Atlanta Research Atlanta was contacted by various nonprofits and interest groups about conducting a record number of client studies in 2005, many of which may be forthcoming in 2006. Efforts have been made by Research Atlanta in 2005 to help continue to grow the Metropolitan Atlanta Mayors Association (MAMA) in partnership with the Regional Leadership Forum (RLF), the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA), and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Research Atlanta received a grant from the Community Foundation of Metro Atlanta to fund technical assistance for a merger effort, which will result in the 2006 merging of Research Atlanta, the Regional Leadership Forum and the Metro Group. aysps.gsu.edu /ar2005/units/researchatlanta.htm   (1077 words)

Regional Leadership Forum Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) is an independent, non-partisan citizens' league that brings together citizens and leaders from the Atlanta region to learn about and discuss the difficult and complex challenges that cross county lines and city limits. was founded in 1994 by graduates of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute, who recognized the need for an organization that could develop and sustain an infrastructure for civic engagement. Other partners include Research Atlanta, the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Metro Atlanta Mayors Association, and the Regional Business Coalition. www.rlfatlanta.org   (182 words)

MAMA Home Page The Metro Atlanta Mayors Association (MAMA), created in 2003, is a cooperative alliance of the mayors of 62 cities in the 10-county metro Atlanta region. Our purpose is to foster communications among cities in the metro Atlanta region, support public policy decisions beneficial to them, coordinate activities among the cities that benefit the entire region, and communicate identified needs to federal, state and regional agencies and organizations and to the citizens of the region. We have reached across individual city boundaries and have emerged as a collective voice on issues that affect our entire region and cannot be effectively addressed by any one jurisdiction acting alone. www.metroatlantamayors.org   (127 words)

Oakland Cemetery--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary Oakland Cemetery is an 88-acre hilly area in the southeastern section of Atlanta which contains the city's oldest extant burial grounds. Among the 40,000 interred at Oakland are: the unmarked graves of paupers, Confederate and Union soldiers, a Jewish section, an African American section, 24 former Atlanta mayors, six former governors, prominent Atlantans including Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell Marsh and golf great Bobby Jones. A brick wall enclosing the cemetery with a pattern of brick pilasters, recessed panels and corbels was built in 1896. www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/oak.htm   (474 words)

CAP/ADID - News Walkable Street Design This session will take a look at how other areas around the United States have explored alternative street design to support more modes of transportation and move more people efficiently and effectively. This is the first in a series of workshops by local organizations exploring the issues of street design and traffic engineering in order to move Atlanta to the forefront of livability and enhance our quality of life. Benefits: Come learn about the issues surrounding street design and how they affect the built environment, some proven solutions to those problems, and finally what Atlanta is doing and will do about overcoming those barriers to creating safe and livable streets. www.atlantadowntown.com /NewsWalkable_Street_Design.asp   (204 words)

RACL Home Page is an independent, non-partisan, 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization whose mission is to engage citizens of metropolitan Atlanta in regional solutions to regional issues. The objective of RACL is to serve as the Atlanta region’s civic league, addressing important issues of regional The Regional Atlanta Civic League combines the respective resources and core competencies of its three legacy organizations to create a new vehicle for engaging the public in the development of broad-based solutions to regional challenges. www.racl.info   (198 words)

Governing Magazine/April 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Democratic mayor of a majority-fl city on its spendthrift ways. that a mayor who focused on issues such as safety and clean streets This is a strategy that big-city mayors across the www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~mdigby/articles/Atlanta.htm   (2364 words)

Who were the mayors of Atlanta? Each issue the editors of About North Georgia answer a question from a reader. My records indicate that Dr. Bomar was a member of the first city council (1848) and was elected Mayor in 1849 (2nd mayor) yet there is no mention of him that I can find on your website. It was never our intention to cover the terms of each Atlanta mayor, however, a list of mayors is a good idea. ngeorgia.com /letters/06sep.html   (197 words)

Best Local Bureaucrat: Best Of: Archives: Creative Loafing Atlanta Best Local Bureaucrat: Best Of: Archives: Creative Loafing Atlanta RICHARD STOGNER, the executive assistant to DeKalb's CEO and Board of Commissioners, has worked for four Atlanta mayors, the chairman of the Fulton County Commission and served as the deputy chief financial officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. Says Angelo Fuster, a longtime Atlanta politico: "He's open-minded on every type of idea, and doesn't stand too much on protocol, and he's as honest as the day is long." Says Stogner: "In this job, you get excited a lot and frustrated a lot, but you never get bored. atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:13605   (199 words)

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