Buttermilk Bottom

Buttermilk Bottom was a real place. It existed for many years in the shadows of Atlantas business district and was considered a festering eyesore. Many generations of black families lived there in almost total seclusion because of it geographic location which was a sunken community riddled with poverty crime rodents and economic depression that was legally imposed by the separate but unequal Jim Crow laws that devastated the lives of thousands of black families throughout the South. This is a fi ctionalized account of the people who lived in The Bottom and their lifestyle during the 50s and the early 60s. Buttermilk Bottom had a notorious reputation because of its delapadated wooden framed apartment houses high crime rate extreme poverty and its isolation from the rest of the city. The reader will glimpse the living conditions the mindset of the people and the political atmosphere that devastated their lives on a daily bases.