Astrology Birth Chart of Ivan Allen Jr.

Ivan Earnest Allen Jr., is an American businessman who served two terms as Atlanta's 52nd mayor, during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Allen was credited with transforming the South. The old was divided and the economic stagnation in the South made progress. Allen took over the management of Ivan Allen, his father's office supplies business, in 1946, and within three years the business was generating millions of dollars in annual revenue. In 1961, he wrote a white paper about the revival of Atlanta. It was approved by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and became the Six Point Forward Atlanta program. This plan will become his roadmap as mayor to create an economic dynamic that establishes infrastructure, business, education, arts, sports and an international presence that is the foundation. platform of modern Atlanta. Allen was a founding member of the influential Atlanta Trade Club, headed by him until his death in 2003.

He was the mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970, and he was key in ushering in a time of desegregation in the city. During his tenure, he ordered the removal of all"white" and"colored" lettering from city hall buildings, and he was one of the few white southern leaders to testify in Congress in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.