"Between Martin and Maynard: Atlanta, Civil Rights, and the Power Of Economic Inclusion"
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Dr. Maurice Hobson is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Historian at Georgia State University. Raised in Selma, Alabama, he earned the Ph.D. degree in History, focusing in African American History and 20th Century U.S. History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning manuscript The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta (University of North Carolina Press 2017) which was selected as the 2018 Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council’s Award for Excellence. Dr. Hobson engages the social sciences and has created a new paradigm called the Black New South For this, he has served as an expert witness in court cases and as a voice of insight documentaries, films, movies, public historical markers, monuments and museum exhibitions.