Frederick Taylor

They stood up for their rights by sitting down at the counter of the Rock Hill Five and Dime. Orders of coffee were met with violence, police brutality and unjust imprisonment, turning a peaceful protest into a landmark of the Civil Rights Movement.

Cabbagetown, a neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta, originally consisted of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the housing built for the factory workers. While Cotton had always been King in the South, that generally referred to the agricultural production of the plant. The actual milling of cotton, the process of turning plant fiber into cloth, was done in the Northern states and even overseas.