Jul 22, 2009 – Atlanta skyline – Corbis

• Atlanta elected the nation’s first African-American mayor back in 1973.
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• Can’t get enough cartoons? Come to Atlanta.
  It’s the home of the Cartoon Network
• Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner outraged movie purists when he started colorizing MGM classic films.
  Do you prefer black-and-white or color?
• Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was born and raised here in Atlanta.
  See his childhood home