‘White Flight’ and Atlanta’s Churches Revisited in Emory Honors Thesis

Many of Atlanta’s neighborhoods underwent a racial ‘sea change’ in the decades following World War Two. 

The response and reaction by neighborhood churches to that transition is recounted in an honors thesis by Emory University student Preston Hogue entitled, “The Ties That Bind:  White Church Flight in Atlanta from 1955 to 1985” [excerpt below].A conversation with Preston Hogue