Atlanta's South-View Cemetery

This is a guidebook to South-View Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. The cemetery was chartered 21 April 1886 by African-American businessmen, all former slaves, faced with exhaustion of Oakland Cemetery (1850) and desirous of a respectful burial ground. The Watts family has managed the cemetery from its earliest days; the current president is the great-granddaughter of the patriarch, Albert Watts. Notable burials include the parents and grandparents of Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Wesley Dobbs, the ""Mayor of Sweet Auburn""; and Alonzo Franklin Herndon, who was born a slave, worked as a sharecropper, established a chain of opulent and successful barbershops, then became Atlanta's first black millionaire through the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Through the lives and accomplishments in death-year order of over 100 people buried at South-View, this book tells the history of African-American Atlanta. Introductory essays are by Traci Rylands and Herman ""Skip"" Mason, Jr. 9781312735293 1312735295 134 BOOK History http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UplLvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UplLvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api en 9781312735293

• | Author: John Soward Bayne
• | Publisher: Lulu.com
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 134 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1312735295
• | ISBN-13: 9781312735293