{"636799":{"#nid":"636799","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERonald Bayor, e\u003C\/strong\u003Emeritus professor in the School of History and Sociology,\u0026nbsp;was quoted and his book referenced in \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reporternewspapers.net\/2020\/07\/03\/how-race-and-racism-shaped-growth-and-cityhood-in-north-metro-atlanta\/\u0022\u003EHow Race and Racism Shaped Growth and Cityhood in North Metro Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EReporter Newspapers\u003C\/em\u003E, July 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to some Atlanta historians, they won\u0026rsquo;t have far to look for subject matter. Racism, the historians say, was a driving force in making the communities majority-White and affluent, in the annexation and cityhood movements that raised them to prominence, and in the lingering segregation that they help to embody in the metro area\u0026rsquo;s housing patterns, schools and economic development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t think anything\u0026rsquo;s changed for the suburban areas. They resisted integration back then\u0026hellip; The whole area\u0026rsquo;s still segregated,\u0026rdquo; said Ronald Bayor, a retired professor of history and sociology at Georgia Tech and author of \u0026ldquo;Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reporternewspapers.net\/2020\/07\/03\/how-race-and-racism-shaped-growth-and-cityhood-in-north-metro-atlanta\/\u0022\u003ERead full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-07-07 21:06:37","changed_gmt":"2020-07-07 21:06:55","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"EcoCAR Mobility Challenge","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.reporternewspapers.net\/2020\/07\/03\/how-race-and-racism-shaped-growth-and-cityhood-in-north-metro-atlanta\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"77671":{"id":"77671","type":"image","title":"Ronald Bayor","body":null,"created":"1449178055","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:35","changed":"1475894691","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:51","alt":"Ronald Bayor","file":{"fid":"193845","name":"ron_bayor_200x300_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ron_bayor_200x300_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ron_bayor_200x300_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33757,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ron_bayor_200x300_0_0.jpg?itok=aw5WZmrx"}}},"media_ids":["77671"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}