# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Maurice Hobson, PhD - The Legend of the Black Mecca
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Lecture and PreOrder Reception
PLEASE RSVP to ASALHAtlantaBranch@gmail.com

Maurice J. Hobson is assistant professor of African
American studies and history at Georgia State University.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated
with black achievement in education, business, politics, media,
and music, earning it the nickname “the black Mecca.” Atlanta’s
long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction,
and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to
leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power
in the 1970s by building a coalition between white progressives,
business interests, and black Atlantans. But as Maurice J. Hobson
demonstrates, Atlanta’s political leadership—from the election of
Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first black mayor, through the city’s
hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games—has consistently
mishandled the black poor. Drawn from vivid primary sources
and unnerving oral histories of working-class city-dwellers and
hip hop artists from Atlanta’s underbelly, Hobson argues that
Atlanta’s political leadership has governed by bargaining with
white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black
Atlantans.
In telling this history through the prism of the black New
South and Atlanta politics, policy, and pop culture, Hobson
portrays a striking schism between the black political elite and
poor city-dwellers, complicating the long-held view of Atlanta as
a mecca for black people.

To order this book, visit www.uncpress.unc.edu or call 1-800-848-6224.

Maurice J. Hobson is assistant professor of African
American studies and history at Georgia State University.

To order this book, visit www.uncpress.unc.edu or call 1-800-848-6224.
To receive a 20% discount, enter code 0120DIS during checkout or mention while ordering.
For information about examination copies, visit www.uncpress.unc.edu and see FOR EDUCATORS.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Atlanta
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Atlanta History Center
- **lat**: 33.841894808215
- **long**: -84.386602521335
- **full address**: Atlanta History Center, 130 W Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, United States

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 25 Apr, 2017 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Atlanta History Center, 130 W Paces Ferry Rd NW, Atlanta, United States
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Dance, Entertainment, Workshops
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