Soon after World War II, however, a wave of white Atlantans, unable to find housing inside the city, began building a new community there from scratch. Modest homes, priced in the $6,000 to $10,000 range, soon dotted the newly laid out streets. “The thing about Collier Heights that no one in the neighborhood realized at the time,” an observer later noted, “was that it lay astride the corridor out which the city’s expanding Negro population was moving.
