Homeless Take Over Downtown Hotel ("This Day in History"-1990)

By Steve Goss

Atlanta, GA – This Sunday is July 3rd, and if we were to turn Atlanta's clock back 21 years to that date in 1990, we'd find an agreement being reached between Mayor Maynard Jackson's administration and advocates for the city's growing homeless population. The settlement followed a prolonged occupation by adovcates and the homeless of downtown Atlanta's Imperial Hotel. Here WABE's Steve Goss talks with Georgia State University historian, Cliff Kuhn...