This Day in History: Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor of Atlanta
Mayor-elect Maynard Jackson with his mother Dr. Irene Dobbs Jackson (left) and his wife, Bunnie
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/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This Thursday is October 16th. If we were to turn our city’s clock back 41 years to that date in 1973, we’d hear news that Maynard Jackson had just been elected Atlanta’s first African American mayor. Georgia State University Associate professor of History Dr. Clifford Kuhn revisits the event with WABE’s Steve Goss…
A conversation with Dr. Clifford Kuhn
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