In 2021, there is a debate on going with some of Atlanta residents of the Buckhead neighborhood. Some of Buckhead’s residents seek to secede from the city of Atlanta to form an independent Buckhead City.
Opponents of a Buckhead succession say it would strip the City of Atlanta of the tax revenue and cripple the city’s budget generated by Buckhead’s businesses and homeowners.
Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore and Councilman Andre Dickens are in a 2021 runoff to determine who will be the next mayor and will have to deal with the Buckhead issue.
The city of Atlanta had a population of 498,715 in 2020, although the metropolitan Combined Statistical Area had a population of nearly 7 million people. The state of Georgia had a 2020 total population of 10.71 million.
This is a brief look back at how the local Atlanta news media covered how the modern Fulton County, which Atlanta is the county seat, was formed. Also, a look back at when Buckhead and other areas of Fulton County were annexed into Atlanta’s city limits.
Today, Buckhead is Atlanta’s luxury shopping destination and is home to 2 of Atlanta’s most major shopping malls Lenox Square and Phipps Plaza. Buckhead is also home to a few MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) rapid rail transit station (Atlanta’s subway system).
Atlanta’s 1960s racial wall in Southwest Atlanta
1966 Atlanta aims to annex Sandy Springs in Fulton County
Atlanta 1973 – Race is an issue in the election that would lead the city to elect Maynard H. Jackson as its first African American mayor.
Atlanta has not had a white mayor since and they city’s development has prospered from downtown to Buckhead. The airport also expanded greatly under Atlanta’s African American mayors. The city also built a rapid rail transit system.
Buckhead MARTA Station