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ATLANTA is a relatively young city:
only incorporated in 1847, it was little more than a minor transportation
center until the Civil War, when its accessibility made it a good
site for the huge Confederacy munitions industry and consequently
a major target for the Union army. In 1864 Sherman's army burned
the city, an act immortalized in Gone with the Wind . Recovery
after the war took just a few years: Atlanta was the archetype
of the aggressive, urban, industrial ''New South,'' furiously
championed by '' boosters '' newspaper owners,
bankers, politicians and city leaders. Industrial giants who based
themselves here included Coca-Cola , source of
a string of philanthropic gifts to the city.
Very few of Atlanta's buildings predate 1915, and
nothing at all survives from before 1868. Its characters, on the
other hand politicians and newspaper people have changed little,
and the ''booster'' tradition has continued to the present, peaking
spectacularly when Atlanta won the right to host the 1996 Olympics
. The bid to convince the world of the city's prosperity and sophistication
was led by city leaders such as ex-mayor Andrew Young
(the first Southern black congressman since Reconstruction, who
became Carter's ambassador to the UN) and flamboyant former CNN
magnate Ted Turner .
Today's Atlanta is at first glance a large American
city. Its population has reached 3.5 million. The city is undeniably
progressive, with little interest in lamenting a lost Southern
past. Since voting in the nation's first black mayor, Maynard
Jackson, in 1974, an estimated 200,000 black families streamed
in from states further north in the 1980s alone. With its ever-increasing
international profile, cosmopolitan blend of cultures and hip
local neighborhoods, the spirit and dynamism of modern Atlanta
is a far cry indeed from its much-mythologized Deep South roots.
