Atlanta Daily World building

ID: 559 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print c/o Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: James R. Lockhart, Historic American Building Survey of the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service ~ Date: 1979
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Public Domain

This building on Auburn Avenue, the vibrant heart of Atlanta's black community during most of the 20th century, was home to the Atlanta Daily World from 1944 until 2008 when a tornado severely damaged the building. Purchased in 2014, the building is being preserved and used adaptively as a mixed-use development.

This file appears in: Postwar Career

By W.A. Scott III
Editor's Note: Scott's obituary in the Atlanta Daily World describes his postwar career as follows:"After the war, he returned to Atlanta and completed his education at Morehouse. He began his married life with Marian, and in 1948 became circulation…