Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses

\"Crow and Molasses\" explores the racial integration of Atlanta public schools in the voices of participants. With an emphasis on 1961, topics include the state government\'s resistance to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the Sibley Commission, the experiences of the \"Atlanta Nine,\" and the strategies Atlanta politicians used to avoid the negative headlines that plagued other cities\' school desegregation efforts. The presentation closes with a discussion of white flight and the \"Atlanta Compromise of 1973,\" which halted busing as a method of integration. \"Crow and Molasses\" is the third installment in Southern Spaces’s Trouble the Land series as well as the third of the series\' five presentations featuring Atlanta.