Photos: Atlanta’s long string of black mayors

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Former Atlanta mayors Ivan Allen, Sam Massell, Maynard Jackson, Bill Campbell, Maynard Jackson and Andy Young pose at a function in Piedmont Park in 1997. In 2017, Atlanta voters may elect the city's first white mayor since 1973. (AJC Staff Photo/Rich Addicks)