Shortly after a mural commemorating the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre was unveiled in South Atlanta last month, residents voiced concerns about the lack of community input on the mural’s violent imagery.
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre was a four-day wave of racial terror when white mobs attacked Black communities throughout Atlanta, leaving at least 25 Black men, women, and children dead, hundreds injured or missing, and businesses destroyed.
Now, a month later, neighbors and community groups are working together to revise the mural’s design, which was commissioned by the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR), with additional art…