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  • The NPU Profile Was A Guide Created By Former Mayor, Maynard Jackson, It Was His Vision For Atlanta in 1974.

    The NPU Profile Was A Guide Created By Former Mayor, Maynard Jackson, It Was His Vision For Atlanta in 1974.

    Retrieved from the Atlanta University archives January, 21,2023. Visit the link below for the full book. https://radar.auctr.edu/islandora/object/auc.109%3A001

    Bosses, over the next couple of weeks let’s take a look at Jackson’s plan and introduce you to John Calhoun, the Black Republican, Mayor, Jackson hired to design how NPUs would be managed and supported by city hall. Below is a letter to the citizens of Atlanta from former, Mayor Jackson. That expresses his delight at the interest of developers and government agencies in the NPU plan and the participation of residents in the neighborhoods throughout Atlanta for their support and the city-wide pride and participation in our communities.

    Maynard Jackson’s legacy to us was the gift of wealth building through land ownership and participation in the communities in which you buy and live. Communities of color are always on the chopping block from Washington to the very city you live in. Most American freeways are built in communities of color to destroy our social and financial economies and to separate black people from white communities. No less a massacre similar to Black Wall Street without dropping fuel on homes, stealing, looting, setting businesses on fire, and committing murder.

    Get involved with your NPU and help to build community wealth in one of the country’s hottest home sales markets. We have been waiting through 70 years of redlining, poor leadership, and city planning that has left us out of the conversation to get to this point and experience community wealth and development, now is the time to Boss Up and be the change you want for your community.

    Thanks to @keishaseanwaites, Post 3, At Large, Atlanta City Council member for standing with the residents of NPUR and supporting former Mayor, Jacksons, Legacy to all residents of Atlanta. Please support leaders that actually work for us. If you do not know CM, Keisha Sean Waites do so, her track record is impressive.

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  • Former Mayor, Jackson Believed, “A leader must set an example for others to follow”.

    Former Mayor, Jackson Believed, “A leader must set an example for others to follow”.

    As we enter February, Black History month, let’s give honor in memory to Atlanta’s first Black Mayor, Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. who in 1969 changed the history of politics in Atlanta. Politics seemed to come naturally to Maynard, his father was a graduate of Morehouse College and pastor of Friendship Baptist Church. Before moving his family from Dallas, Texas, to Atlanta Rev Jackson founded a voter registration league for blacks in Dallas and was the first black to run for the Dallas school board. Maynard’s maternal grandfather, John Wesley Dobbs, was for decades an early civil rights activist and pioneer in voter registration and was the founder of the Georgia Voter’s league back in 1935 (Now the American Voter’s League) and was Grand Master of the Prince Hall Masons of Georgia. 

    Mr. Dobbs was a bold and outspoken civic leader (take a drive down the street named after him in Atlanta) his steely efforts to encourage black voter registration would fortuitously pave the way for his grandson to seize political office decades later in a landmark victory that would subsequently change the face of history.

    It has been said that Maynard Jackson created more black millionaires than anyone in America. He did it by making economic equity for African Americans one of his primary goals as mayor of Atlanta and refused to complete the new construction of Atlanta’s airport without minority participation (including women). The lasting example of his commitment is visible in the current standing Maynard Jackson International Atlanta Airport site and the addition of his name to the title of one of the busiest airports in the world – the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. 

    Even as he enjoyed his business success Maynard never forgot those who continue to struggle simply to be given a chance. “A leader must set an example for others to follow, especially in assuring equal justice and equal economic opportunity to African Americans, Latinos, other minorities and women, all of whom are legally, ethically and morally entitled to it,” he told the Butler Street YMCA Hungry Club in a speech on Feb. 19, 2003.  The need for collective, positive struggle still is critical today. In the business world where many set their sights only on enriching themselves, Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr., was a leader. He set an example and never stopped fighting for equal economic opportunity for all in the Atlanta communities he served. Story By Geraldine (Gerri Elder, Former Chief of Staff to The Honorable Mayor, Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., and NPUR resident. Photo credit: Cision PR Web.

    Boss Up, we must find and mentor leaders that care about us, The People. We need leaders who will work on our behalf. They say they will while on the campaign trail and as soon as they are elected they forget all that they campaign about and often betray us.

    President Biden asked to “Choose Community Over Chaos”.

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    The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc