Maurice J. Hobson (top) with his father and brothers

Maurice J. Hobson (top) is the author of The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta. He's pictured here with his father and his brothers when their family moved to Selma, Alabama after his father turned down a job at the Atlanta University Center. He turned it down because they were killing black children in Atlanta and nothing was being done. Maurice and his brothers fit the profile of the children being murdered--black boys with afro hairstyles within the age range--and their parents were hell bent on keeping them protected.