- Neighborhood
- Segregation
- 1948 onward
- City of Atlanta
- General area only
Collier Heights
A 1,750-home suburb of brick ranch houses built from the 1950s by and for Atlanta's Black middle class, on land opened to Black buyers under the era's negotiated expansion areas.
The record
Wikipedia says the land was sold to African Americans from 1948 because it was considered undesirable, and that Black planners and builders developed it. It became the city's most desirable Black residential area in the mid-20th century. Bayor's study documents city 'Negro expansion areas' of 1952–54 and the West Side Mutual Development Committee's work on Black residential expansion around Collier Heights in 1954. Residents included Martin Luther King Sr., Ralph and Juanita Abernathy, Donald Hollowell and Herman J. Russell. It was listed on the National Register in 2009 and locally designated in 2013.
Today: Historic Collier Heights, between Fairburn Rd, Hamilton E. Holmes Dr, Donald L. Hollowell Pkwy and I-20.
Where on the map: Fairburn Rd (W), Hamilton E. Holmes Dr (E), Donald L. Hollowell Pkwy (N), I-20 at Linkwood Rd (S).