The First Black Soutnern Mayor,1963

Maynard Jackson was an ingenious man that rescinded through the wiles of adversity. In this time period the civil rights movement was over but still a process for the south to get used to. By me being from Georgia it really makes me feel proud about where I'm from because Georgia has so much potent history behind it. I know that Mayor Jackson had to battle with the castigation and the cravenness of racism to achieve his accomplishment. He had to be very audacious and wanted to amalgamate the Atlanta community. He knew he would have obstacles but because he knew he could make change, he did not worry about what lied ahead of him; he only concentrated on how he can get there. Could you imagine being apart of history as being known as "The First Black Southern Mayor?" (eyes on the prize). That meant that he was the first African American in the whole southern states to hold a political position as mayor. In his honor the Hartsfield International Airport, in Atlanta,GA, has been renamed Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Even with the name change there were many people who disagreed with the honoring of the name change. Many tried to fight to have his named removed but then there were huge amount of others advocating to keep it and because they fought for the right cause his name is now permanent.