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During the 1960s Atlanta was a major organizing center of the civil rights movement with Dr Martin Luther King Jr Ralph David Abernathy and students from Atlanta's historically black colleges and universities playing major roles in the movement's leadership While minimal compared to other cities Atlanta was not free of racial strife in 1961 the city attempted to thwart blockbusting by erecting road barriers in Cascade Heights countering the efforts of civic and business leaders to foster Atlanta as the "city too busy to hate" Desegregation of the public sphere came in stages with public transportation desegregated by 1959 the restaurant at Rich's department store by 1961 movie theaters by 1963 and public schools by 1973 in the private sphere the Westminster Schools desegregated in 1967, State symbols Buzz the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets' mascot. . Northeast Corridor: the Northeast Corridor between Washington D.C and Boston via Baltimore Philadelphia Newark New York and Providence is largely owned by Amtrak (363 of 457 miles) working cooperatively with several state and regional commuter agencies Between New Haven Connecticut and New Rochelle New York Northeast Corridor trains travel on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line which is owned and operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 2.4 Technology Square Ridership increased during the first decade of the 21st century after implementation of capital improvements in the NEC and rises in automobile fuel costs the inauguration of the high-speed Acela Express in late 2000 generated considerable publicity and led to major ridership gains However through the late 1990s and very early 21st century Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other expenditures to break even by 2002 it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement in early 2002 David L Gunn replaced Warrington as president In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured Highways airports and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees highway fuel and road taxes and in the case of the General Fund from general taxation Gunn dropped most freight express business and worked to eliminate deferred maintenance, Jewish There are many roads like this throughout the area leading to duplication of names in different counties in Fulton "Roswell Road" refers to Georgia 9 through northern Atlanta and across Sandy Springs in addition to the above-mentioned use in Cobb for example Numeric street addressing is done by county as well with the origin usually being at one corner of the town square in the county seat the U.S Postal Service ignores these actual and logical boundaries however overlapping ZIP codes and their associated place names across counties the Cumberland/Galleria area has Cobb's numbers and an "SE" suffix but is called "Atlanta" by the USPS (despite being Vinings which the USPS ironically calls "unacceptable") which can confuse visitors to think it is far away in southeast Atlanta. Fencing ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 5 Freddie Freeman 1860 1,057,286 16.7% 2.11 Legislative history 13.2 Commercial railways Scheller College of Business. . . Outdoor recreational activities include hiking along the Appalachian Trail; Civil War Heritage Trails; rock climbing and whitewater kayaking Other outdoor activities include hunting and fishing. Amtrak began operations on May 1 1971 Amtrak received no rail tracks or rights-of-way at its inception All Amtrak's routes were continuations of prior service although Amtrak pruned about half the passenger rail network Of the 366 train routes that operated previously Amtrak only continued 184 on the routes that were continued (to the extent possible) schedules were retained with only minor changes from the Official Guide of the Railways and under the same names.[citation needed] Several major corridors became freight-only including the ex-New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from New York to Ohio and Grand Trunk Western Railroad's Chicago to Detroit route Reduced passenger train schedules created headaches a 19-hour layover became necessary for eastbound travel on the James Whitcomb Riley between Chicago and Newport News.[citation needed].

The state's western border runs in a straight line south-southeastward from a point southwest of Chattanooga to meet the Chattahoochee River near West Point it continues downriver to the point where it joins the Flint River (the confluence of the two forming Florida's Apalachicola River); the southern border goes almost due east and very slightly south in a straight line to the St Mary's River which then forms the remainder of the boundary back to the ocean. The composition of religious affiliation in Georgia is 70% Protestant 9% Catholic 1% Mormon 1% Jewish 0.5% Muslim 0.5% Buddhist and 0.5% Hindu Atheists deists agnostics and other unaffiliated people make up 13% of the population the largest Christian denominations by number of adherents in 2010 were the Southern Baptist Convention with 1,759,317; the United Methodist Church with 619,394; and the Roman Catholic Church with 596,384 Non-denominational Evangelical Protestant had 566,782 members the Church of God (Cleveland Tennessee) has 175,184 members and the National Baptist Convention USA Inc has 172,982 members the Presbyterian Church (USA) is the largest Presbyterian body in the state with 300 congregations and 100,000 members the other large body Presbyterian Church in America had at its founding date 14 congregations and 2,800 members; in 2010 it counted 139 congregations and 32,000 members the Roman Catholic Church is noteworthy in Georgia's urban areas and includes the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah Georgia is home to the largest Hindu temple in the United States the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta located in the suburb city of Lilburn Georgia is home to several historical synagogues including the Temple (Atlanta) Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta) and Congregation Mickve Israel (Savannah) Chabad and the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute are also active in the state. The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar electro-optics and materials engineering Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research especially government-funded classified work is conducted through this counterpart organization GTRI employs over 1,700 people and had $305 million in revenue in fiscal year 2014 the other institutes include: the Parker H Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute the Institute of Paper Science and Technology Institute for Materials and the Institute for People and Technology, There are a number of performing arts venues in the state among the largest are the Fox Theatre and the Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff Arts Center both on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta as well as the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre located in Northwest Atlanta.