1. The regional characteristics of geography, population, economics, and politics that
shaped the development of the African American community in the urban industrial belt.
2. The factors that made Atlanta's racial environment distinctive.
3. Regional comparisons in racial and ethnic composition between the South and other
regions in the nation and between sub-regions in the South.
4. Changes over time in the impact of race and ethnicity.
5. Comparisons in the evolution of Jim Crow between North and South, and
between regions within the South.
6. Continuities in institutionalized racism following the Jim Crow period.
Published: 17 March 2004
© 2004 Carole Merritt and
Southern Spaces 
