An Atlanta-born Baptist minister who was part of the educated middle class that had developed in Atlanta's African-American community Martin Luther King Jr emerged as a national leader in the civil rights movement King joined with others to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta in 1957 to provide political leadership for the Civil Rights Movement across the South. Boundaries During the 2000s Atlanta underwent a profound physical cultural and demographic transformation Suburbanization a booming economy and new migrants decreased the city's black percentage from a high of 67% in 1990 to 54% in 2010 From 2000 to 2010 Atlanta gained 22,763 white residents 5,142 Asian residents and 3,095 Hispanic residents while the city's black population decreased by 31,678 Much of the city's demographic change during the decade was driven by young college-educated professionals: from 2000 to 2009 the three-mile radius surrounding Downtown Atlanta gained 9,722 residents aged 25 to 34 holding at least a four-year degree an increase of 61% Between the mid-1990s and 2010 stimulated by funding from the HOPE VI program Atlanta demolished nearly all of its public housing a total of 17,000 units and about 10% of all housing units in the city. An Atlanta police car Disputes over water are becoming increasingly common with both Alabama and Florida filing lawsuits and threatening injunctions to prevent Georgia from taking too much water mostly for metro Atlanta.[citation needed] South Carolina also threatened when a pipeline east to the Savannah River was mentioned even informally.[citation needed] the state has now been ordered by a judge to reduce withdrawals from the Chattahoochee south of Lanier to 1970s levels within three years (2012) something that would create an immediate emergency water shortage if it were actually enforced.[citation needed]. Creation of Sandy Springs was a catalyst for municipalization of the entire county in which local groups would attempt to incorporate every area into a city Such a result would essentially eliminate the county's home rule powers (granted statewide by a constitutional amendment to the Georgia State Constitution in the 1960s) to act as a municipality in unincorporated areas and return it to being entirely the local extension of state government.
Interstate 85 passes through from Montgomery on the southwest and from Greenville on the northeast I-75 merges with I-85 to form the Downtown Connector from the Brookwood Interchange just north of Midtown Atlanta to just south of the Lakewood Freeway in south Atlanta Interstate 185 is a spur which merges with I-85 in LaGrange and stretches southward to Columbus Interstate 985 is a spur which merges with I-85 in Suwanee and serves the northern suburbs of Gwinnett and Hall Counties it terminates just northeast of Gainesville, An elevated view of several buildings and the trees surrounding them a red brick building with a sloped roof is in the foreground and a large white football stadium is just behind it taking up much of the center of the picture Beyond the stadium there is a red brick smokestack near the center of the picture the red brick Tech Tower building on the left side bearing white letters that spell "TECH" and the red brick physics building on the right side in the background there is a white domed building All around these buildings are green-leafed oak trees An overcast light blue sky takes up the top third of the picture, Tech Tower First we'll use Spahn Players Asian 1.2% 2.1% 3.3%. Communications: Motorola Digital 800 MHz Trunking system that is one of the largest in the country and utilizes 24 channels This system provides voice and data communications for the Atlanta Police Fire Watershed Corrections and other Municipal Departments the Atlanta Police Radio System also provides voice and data communications for the Georgia State Patrol inside of the Atlanta Metropolitan area and the City of Hapeville the City of East Point and the City of College Park, Since 2007 proposals have been floated to allow new multi-county sales taxes in addition to existing county sales taxes for roads to pay for regional transportation initiatives, See also: Political party strength in Georgia (U.S state).
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