Atlanta Inquirer
Although the building at 947 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive stood before 1960, it assumed a new purpose in that year as the headquarters of The Atlanta Inquirer, the second Black newspaper published in Atlanta. Its purpose was to function as a direct response to the Atlanta Daily World, whose subject matter was seen as more conservative. Followers of the Atlanta Student Movement, including Charlayne Hunter-Gault, believed that there should be a newspaper accurately and sufficiently covering their protests. The Atlanta Inquirer mission statement, “To Seek out the truth and report it impartially without Fear or Favor” clearly communicated an insistence on accuracy and social justice.
