On this day 50 years ago, Maynard Jackson made history by becoming the first Black mayor of any major city in the South. Jackson, 35, defeated former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell by winning with 60 percent of the vote. Jackson, a graduate of Morehouse College, would change the trajectory of a city that would eventually … Continued
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