From Murder to Money: Criminalizing the Atlanta Mothers to Preserve the New South City Restricted; Files Only
Pugh, Aleo (Spring 2023)
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In 1979-1981, a series of confounding disappearances and murders claimed the lives of 28 poor Black youth and two adult men, terrorizing the City of Atlanta. The city’s Black political elite largely ignored the spree of murders, pushing a group of mothers to bring the tragedy to the public. In doing so, the mother’s trenchant analyses of the murders and the city’s neglect began unravelling the mythology behind the “City Too Busy to Hate.” To preserve the new South city, the Black officialdom, white business elite and citizens neutralized the group’s activism by placing the group of assertive, poor, single Black mothers into a narrative of Black female pathology.
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I. Introduction: “What More Do They Want?”………………………………………….1
II. Chapter One: A “Model Mother”: The Start of a Saga………………………………19
III. Chapter Two: “A City Too Proud to Beg”: Welfare Queens in a Welfare City……..37
IV. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...……57
V. Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………63
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