This guide is organized around four walking and driving tours of the
important civil rights sites in Atlanta from the 1940s to the present.
It also contains historic and current photographs of most of the sites
and provides information about how to reach the sites by car or public
transportation. Furthermore, the book provides a brief history of the
civil rights movement in Atlanta in the 1950s and 1960s, a chronology of
the important civil rights events in Atlanta from 1957 to 1968, and a
bibliography of books and articles published about civil rights events
in Atlanta during the 1950s and 1960s.