Defacto White Man Made Segregation

Years ago Facebook Post In today’s Marietta Daily Journal, Cobb & State section, is the article “Black and White” by Ross Williams. Mr. Williams is black. He took a scholarly non-biased view of the segregation traditions and laws in Marietta back “then”. In the article he had an illustrated map of Marietta pointing out where the black neighborhoods were. It reminded me of in the 1960s Marietta’s neighboring town Smyrna bragged of not having any black citizens in the city limits. What they did where any cluster of blacks lived they officially made that area outside the city limits of Smyrna. They was an island surrounded by Smyrna. They had to go through Smyrna to go anyplace. If there was a fire or crime problem Smyrna was not responsible for put out fires or save a life. It would be Cobb County’s problem.