In July, area movie theatre owners meet and agree to admit six black patrons per performance through August 5, and open to as many who want after that, assuming there are no incidents. But if integration causes trouble, the theatres claim the right to resegregate. In December, Martin Luther King Jr has his first public appearance in Atlanta , his home town. 1964 Lester Maddox, wielding gun and ax handle, chases blacks from his Pickrick restaurant in early July. Among those ordered to desegregate after the U.S. Supreme Court upholds non-discrimination in public accomodations later that month, Maddox closes the restaurant in August.
Work resumes on the Stone Mountain carving.
Grady Hospital begins desegregrating. The new Atlanta Stadium opens and will be the home of the Atlanta Crackers for one year. Atlanta has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation with 2.2 percent. In January, Julian Bond is refused a seat in the Georgia House because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. Stone Mountain Park opens.