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A LOOK BACK
This Month in History
Ann Taylor Boutwell
March 9, 1960: A group of Atlanta University Center students led by Julian Bond
and Lonnie King released An Appeal for Human Rights as a full-page advertisement
in the city’s daily newspapers. The appeal called for civil rights for African-Americans
and outlined the organizing of sit-ins to protest segregation around Atlanta. Known as
the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights, the group began the Atlanta Student
Movement and held sit-ins at lunch counters and other locations starting on March 15
that same year.
March 25,1932: Changing the community of Buckhead’s name to something more
highfalutin again became an issue. Six years earlier, a large group of Buckhead citizens
petitioned the Fulton County Commissioner to change the name to “Northwood.”
Luckily, the attempts to change the name all failed. Buckhead was created in 1838, when
South Carolinian Henry Irby and wife, Georgia native Sardis Walraven, bought and
settled on 202-plus acres of land around the present Peachtree, Roswell and West Paces
Ferry roads.
March 12, 1925: Davison-Paxon merged with R.H. Macy and Company of New
York. On March 21, 1927, the new store opened on Peachtree in the handsome $6
million building designed by Starrett and Van Vleck of New York and Hentz, Reid, and
Adler of Atlanta. The landmark site next door to the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel is
now known as events and office facility 200 Peachtree.
March 13, 1981: Timothy Hill, 13, was the last child killed during what is now
known as the Atlanta Child Murders that galvanized the city from 1979 to 1981. Wayne
Williams was eventually arrested and convicted in the murder of two adults, but was
never convicted in the murder of any of the 23 children. Hill’s death by asphyxiation
would be attributed to Williams and the case eventually closed.
March 14, 2008: More than
50 trees were toppled and dozens
of headstones and obelisks were
destroyed when a tornado struck
Oakland Cemetery. The tornado
damaged buildings as it tore through
Downtown Atlanta, including blowing
out windows in the Westin Peachtree
Plaza and severely damaging the Fulton
Cotton Mill Lofts across from the
cemetery in Cabbagetown. It was the
first tornado to hit the Downtown area
since weather record keeping began in
the 1880s.
March 27,1944: The Atlanta-based Coca-Cola company registered a trademark for
the soft drink’s more common name, Coke. Be sure to check out the Coca-Cola Bottle
exhibition at the High Museum now through October marking the iconic bottle’s 100th
anniversary.
March 30,1873: The Atlanta Street Railway, the city’s first streetcar system pulled by
mules and horses, opened the Taylor Hill line, which ran to within a block of where the
Georgia Dome now sits. ESI
Historian Ann Taylor Boutwell is a docent at the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
Contact her at annboutwell@bellsouth.net.
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