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View of Mary Sanford, president of the Northwest Perry Homes Tenants Association, and three unidentifed individuals, speaking at a MARTA planning meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.Mary Stanford served as the president of the Northwest Perry Homes Tenants Association during the 1970s and advocated the planning of MARTA routes near public housing projects in Atlanta so that tenants could have transportation to jobs on the northside of the city.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Atlanta
  3. Georgia
  4. Housing Projects
  5. Mass Transit
  6. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
  7. Sanford, Mary

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