Jill B. (PuppyMama) - , reviewed on 12/4/2005 + 115 more book reviews

The intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn, the spiritual main stret of Atlanta's black community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in theis southern city. Through hundreds of interview and five years of research, the author shows how two families, the Allens descended from slave owners, and the Dobbses, from slaves, produced two influential mayors of the modern south, Ivan Allen, Jr., and Maynard Jackson, Jr.

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