this is story and jake dorman from the university of california, los angeles, does undergrad at stanford, who's written all these books and does a book on atlanta. he does a chapter on the harlem renaissance. he talks about regular in harlem. he said, although you have these exceptional cases of people who did well, it was amazing to see the degree which black businesses did not prosper in harlem, in atlanta, in this period in the 1920s and 1930s, african-americans at this point in all the cities, united states of america, only one city had a higher percentage of black folks. it was birmingham, alabama, then atlanta, georgia. atlanta, georgia already had a disproportionately high number of black people of all the cities in the united states, there was one black daily newspaper was a chicago defender, was the amsterdam news. it wasn't the washington bee, it was the atlanta world. atlanta had created a military had created a military offshoot. they created a media by the 1940s, a chain newspapers of the 1940s. atlanta had distinguished itself as exceptional space of black achievement early