How Atlanta carefully orchestrated school desegregation

On Aug. 30, 1961, the Atlanta Public School system desegregated when nine Black students—remembered as the Atlanta Nine—entered four previously all-white APS high schools. Members of the national press were in town to see whether the situation would explode into a conflict like Little Rock in 1957 or New Orleans in 1960. Here’s how the city carefully managed the potential conflict. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.)