Segregation & public facilities
Atlanta walls off a street
Barriers ordered 17 December 1962, removed 1 March 1963Peyton and Harlan roads, Peyton Forest, southwest Atlanta, GA
When a Black doctor bought a house in Peyton Forest, Atlanta barricaded Peyton and Harlan roads to keep other Black buyers out. The national press called it the Atlanta Wall. It stood ten weeks.
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