Downtown Atlanta, looking west down John Portman Boulevard from the Downtown Connector, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1964.

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Collection:: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
Title:: Downtown Atlanta, looking west down John Portman Boulevard from the Downtown Connector, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1964.
Creator:: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Contributor to Resource:: Lee, J. C. (Photographer)
Date of Original:: 1964-10
Subject:: Buildings
Skyscrapers
Aerial photographs
Heart of Atlanta Motel
Hilton Hotels Corporation
Location:: United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, John Portman Boulevard, 33.760986, -84.389756
Medium:: color transparencies
Type:: StillImage
Format:: image/jp2
Description:: Negative envelope: "Atlanta Skyline & Expressways at Night, Oct. 1964, J.C. Lee." During this time, the motel was owned by Atlanta attorney Moreton Rolleston Jr., who was an avid segregationist. Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the year pictured), Rolleston filed suit in Federal Court. His case, Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, eventually was heard by the United States Supreme Court, where he lost.
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/3689
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:3689/manifest.json
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Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):: Cite as: AJCNS1964-10-01h, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
Original Collection:: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
Contributing Institution:: Georgia State University. Special Collections
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