Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement


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Phase Two - Retrenchment and Redirection - 1953

Atlanta University President Rufus Clement is elected as the first African American to serve on the Atlanta Board of Education after successfully battling charges that he had been affiliated with several Communist-influenced organizations.