- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Atlanta Youth Murders
- Creator:
- Renfro, Paul
- Date of Original:
- 2019-11-04
- Subject:
- Serial murders--Georgia--Atlanta
African American youth--Crimes against--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Atlanta Youth murders. From 1979 through 1981, a wave of kidnappings and murders terrorized Atlanta's economically marginalized African American population. At least twenty-nine Atlantans between the ages of seven and twenty-seven (almost all male) were abducted and slain across a twenty-two-month period. The tragedies—which came to be known as the Atlanta youth murders or, alternatively, the Atlanta child murders—attracted national and international attention, as investigators struggled to solve the cases and placate the city's increasingly restless poor and working-class Black communities.
GSE identifier: SS8H12 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlanta-youth-murders/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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