PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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He blocked the development of airports because he did not think aviation was important.
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He designed high-tech passenger planes that could fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
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He began promoting aviation in the 1920s and worked to build airports in Georgia making the state a transportation leader in the South.
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He worked on moving Atlanta’s airport south to the coastal plains because of the land was flat and softer in case of a crash.
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Detailed explanation-1: -William B. Hartsfield served as mayor of Atlanta for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city’s history. He is credited with developing Atlanta into an aviation powerhouse and with building its image as “A City Too Busy to Hate."
Detailed explanation-2: -Why is Atlanta’s longest serving mayor, William Berry Hartsfield, known as Atlanta’s “father of aviation"? He was an accomplished pilot who began Delta airlines. He believed that an airport for Atlanta would be a key to the city’s economic prosperity. He invented the first airplane.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hartsfield became mayor in 1936 and served a total of 23 years. He built biracial coalitions and his steady leadership navigated Atlanta through the civil rights movement, avoiding the violence that plagued cities like Birmingham. After his death in 1971, Atlanta named the airport in his honor.
Detailed explanation-4: -What evidence could you site that would show the importance that William B. Hartsfield had in the growth of Atlanta? He served for six terms as mayor. Atlanta Municipal Airport was renamed in his honor.