Population In Atlanta Research Articles

Atlanta: Protest and Elections Are Not Enough

Blacks hold governmental power in Atlanta. They have a two-to-one majority on the city council, and Andrew Young is in his second term as the city's second black mayor. Moreover, blacks are a substantial presence in the civic life of Atlanta. They have held the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce, and are to be found among the membership of every important board and commission in the public life of the community. The political incorporation of blacks in Atlanta is now strong enough for Mayor Young to entertain the possibility of city-county consolidation. Even with such a move, blacks presumably would remain at the center of public life in Atlanta.How such a seemingly strong form of political incorporation came about is in part a familiar story. Key facts in the city's political history are widely known:1. In 1946, Georgia's white primary was invalidated. A voter-registration drive in the black community brought nearly 20,000 new voters onto the rolls, making the black community more than a quarter of the city's electorate (Bacote, 1955).2. Atlanta's mayor at the time, William B. Hartsfield, recognized the potential for taking on Atlanta's black community as junior partners in a coalition built around the mutually reinforcing themes of economic growth and racial moderation. He and his successor, Ivan Allen, Jr., profited electorally from that coalition over the next twenty years (see Jennings and Zeigler, 1966).3. Atlanta's black community entered a new and more assertive phase in 1960 as direct-action protests signalled the end of the era of quiet accommodation between established black and white leaders (Walker, 1963).4. The 1970 census reports show that Atlanta's population balance had tilted to a black majority, and, in 1973, Maynard Jackson was elected as Atlanta's first black mayor. Jackson was reelected by a comfortable margin in 1977, and he has been followed by Atlanta's second black mayor, Andrew Young. Mayor Young was reelected in a landslide in 1985.

The case Dispositions of Temporarily Trial-Incompetent Criminal Defendants

The case dispositions of criminal defendants with a history of temporary trial incompetency were compared to dispositions of the criminal defendant population in Atlanta, Georgia. The comparison revealed no significant intergroup differences in respect to sentencing patterns. In regard to prosecution rates, temporarily trial-incompetent defendants were significantly more often prosecuted for the crimes of trespass and rape.

Race as an Element in the Intra-City Regionalization of Atlanta's Population

RACE AS AN ELEMENT IN THE INTRA-CITY REGIONALIZATION OF ATLANTA'S POPULATION Donald R. Deskins, Jr.* INTRODUCTION. Begionalization and its related problems have long plagued geographers. The question of how to effectively determine homogeneous and nodal regions has to date consumed much professional time and energy and is yet to be satisfactorily resolved. Recently, factor analysis has been employed as a technique to regionalize socio-economic data aggregated on the census tract scale in metropolitan areas. (1) The employment of factor analysis in the process of regionalization has permitted geographers to reduce and simplify large numbers of spatially distributed variables into a few manageable factors, thus expediting interpretation. Although the efficacy of factor analysis as a regionalizing technique has been demonstrated, there are numerous techniques equal to the task of regionalization, among them are found the various geographical grouping or clustering algorithms. (2) STUDY PURPOSE AND RATIONALE. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the effectiveness of a single grouping algorithm in the determination of Atlanta's intra-city population regions. It is not the intent of this paper to argue that a geographical grouping technique is better adapted to regionalizing census tract data than is factor analysis. On the contrary, it is only the aim of this effort to demonstrate that a geographical grouping technique can also expedite the process of regionalizing the population found in a city. With this aim in mind, Atlanta's population was selected for examination. Atlanta, like most southern cities has not been as intensively studied as cities in the North (e.g., Chicago). (3) This point alone is rationale enough for examining the population patterns of Georgia's capital. However , Atlanta's population has several other attributes which justify its selection as the focal point of this study. Atlanta not only contains the seat of state government, but it is also a regional distribution center which has as its hinterland much of the southeastern United States. In addition to its commercial importance, it is also a major center of black culture. Atlanta has long been an intellectual center for black Americansnoted for the many traditionally black institutions of higher learning which comprise the Atlanta University Center. Moreover, the black residential community is well established. The longevity of Atlanta's black residential areas increases the chance that residential patterns between races as well as within racial categories will appear when *Dr. Deskins is assistant professor of geography at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Director of the AAG Commission on Geography and Afro-America (COMGA). The paper was accepted for publication in August 1971. Vol. XI, No. 2 91 geographical grouping techniques are applied to socio-economic data aggregated by census tract. Other studies of Atlanta have identified and verified residential regions stratified by race. (4) The regions resulting from these efforts are displayed in Figure 1 and will be compared with regionalization resulting from the forthcoming analysis. Sources: see footnote 4. Figure 1. Residential Regions, Atlanta, 1960 92 Southeastern Geographer White High Income 1.1Ansley Park 1.2Buckhead 1.3Northside FIGURE 1 LEGEND Residential Regions Black High Income White High-Medium Income 1.4Cascade Heights White Medium Income 1.5Ben Hill 1.6Bolton 1.7Center Hill 1.8Druid Hills 1.9Morningside 1.10Peachtree Hills 1.11Perkerson Park Black High-Medium Income 2.1Collier Heights Black Medium Income 2.2Adamsville 2.3Atlanta University Center White Medium-Low Income White Loto Income 1.12Cabbagetown 1.13Bellwood 1.14Tight Squeeze Black Medium-Low Income 2.4 West Atlanta Black Low Income 2.5Bedford Pines 2.6Butler Street 2.7East Atlanta 2.8Mechanicsville 2.9Perry Homes 2.10Plunkett Town 2.11Summer Hill 2.12Thomasville 2.13West End 2.14Vine City DATA AND TECHNIQUE. The data used in this examination consist of the 20 variables listed in Table 1. These data were drawn from the U. S. Census of Population: 1960 for the City of Atlanta and compiled by census tracts yielding a universe of 106 tracts. To control for variance among the 20 variables, the raw data comprising each variable set were standardized by employing a Z transformation. Actually the Z scores resulting from the transformation of the raw data comprising each variable...