On April 4th, the world will commemorate the sacrifice of Atlanta’s own Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. American ...

Maurice J. Hobson
Maurice J. Hobson is a historian and an assistant professor of African American studies at Georgia State University. His research interests include African American history, 20th-century US history, African American studies, oral history and ethnography, urban and rural history, political economy, and popular cultural studies. He is the author of The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta (2017).