However, whereas community control activists in New York and Los Angeles sought the transfer of educational authority to parent and grassroots activist–led councils, Atlanta’s black leadership elite instead sought to build on their growing influence by securing themselves administrative control of the city’s school system. Their efforts to take over the apparatus of public education in Atlanta would triumph at the expense of grassroots education activism in the city’s poor black neighborhoods, reflecting an intraracial struggle in which both gender and socioeconomic class played a defining
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