We Would Be Descendants of Buttermilk Bottom, Atlanta, Georgia: As Told by U.S. Army Retired Csm William Huff

By Cassandra Huff DD PhD JD

So the story goes on for one side of the family. In all these stories, it’s hard to tell which are true and which are not! Let’s view the stories as different perspectives. Then we won’t care to discount any because even in falsehood, we do find some truth. Someone else’s truth may not apply to you or to the one telling the account. Nevertheless, all those stories may definitely apply to others. Now wear that for a while. Decide which of this and that will register; as for the other one, let it enter one ear and travel through and out the other ear. As my daddy would say while we were growing up, “Now some of this and that you would necessarily let in one ear and out the other.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728318912

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© 2019 Cassandra Huff DD, PhD, JD. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse  08/24/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1892-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1891-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019909561

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As the branches continue to grow and the vines strengthen, do not lose touch with the unity that inspired growth, success, and perseverance. Remain with strength!

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PREFACE

Buttermilk Bottom was an African American neighborhood in central Atlanta, Georgia, from the early 1900s until the 1960s. It was considered a ghetto and a slum. Throughout the area now occupied by Georgia Tech, Renaissance Park, Central Park, and the Atlanta Civic Center, there lived blacks from all walks of life—medical doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, and clergy. Families! We were all family, and each family living life as in a village made sure each other had the necessities to sustain life.

Buttermilk Bottom, now known as Bedford Pines (a name given to the area after Buttermilk Bottom was destroyed, and the redevelopment process began), was in Atlanta’s old Fourth Ward, in an area that was principally rolling hills and railroad lines, with no paved streets and no electricity.

You might wonder how people survived. What percentage of the people of Buttermilk Bottom became ravaged with incurable diseases and communicable illnesses? How many survived the pain of hunger, joblessness, and lack of education?

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