On April 9, 1968, 150,000 mourners converged in Atlanta for Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, a dramatic event that took place against a national backdrop of war protests and presidential politics and in a still-segregationist South where Georgia’s governor surrounded the state capitol with troops and refused to lower the flag in acknowledgment of King’s death. Burial chronicles the events of this pivotal week in U.S. history.
Coming in January 2011, Scribner
One of the books in this series of city profiles produced by Westside Publishing. These are large-format, photo-intensive books focusing on landmarks both extant and long gone.
August 2010, West Side Publishing
This second edition of
Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot has been updated and expanded. A new feature is a foreword by Dr. June Dobbs Butts, who was an active member of the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and whose father, John Wesley Dobbs, was directly involved in the events.
July 2009, University of Georgia Press >> More about the book