“September 1959. Three o’clock, Saturday afternoon.” In Kevin Kruse’s history of integration in Atlanta in the latte half of the 20th century, he discusses how neighborhood began to first integrate (and then quickly segregate) because of boundary-creep, leading to voting blocks gaining power, and then leading to different kinds of white flight into other neighborhoods and suburbs. Once the the boundary was both successfully broken, and then held, it usually followed a generally familiar pattern. And of course, we’re all familiar with the ways in […]