From Poverty to History Maker

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 The Early Childhood and Formative Years: Poverty and Segregation
Chapter 2 Higher Education Experiences and My Early Professional Career
Chapter 3 Civic, Political and University Activities in Atlanta
Chapter 4 The 1974 Election Campaign and Early Years in Political Office
Chapter 5 Atlanta and Georgia Politics in the 1970s and 1980s
Chapter 6 Family, University, Business and Civic Developments
Chapter 7 The Southern Center and Decline of the Political Science Program
Chapter 8 The Georgia General Assembly in the 1990s
Chapter 9 Election Reform and Other Policy Issues
Chapter 10 My Final Years in Academia, 2000-2005
Chapter 11 Partisan Politics and the Georgia Legislature
Chapter 12 The Political Struggle Over Education Reform
Chapter 13 Republican Control of the Georgia General Assembly and Adverse Impacts
Chapter 14 The Retirement Years
Index

If those who helped to shape it do not write Atlanta’s history, it runs the risk of being forgotten…I am not only proud that he has chronicled his life, I am grateful that he has lived a life worth sharing.