On March 23, 1976, the Chattanooga City Commission took the recommendation of Commissioner Jim Eberle and authorized an 18-month lease with the Chattanooga Jaycees for a 65-acre Amnicola Highway site for staging a fair.
Fifty years ago, the thrust by Black Chattanooga activists was that the city put into practice the federal Fair Housing Act passed by Congress in 1968 and the open-housing ordinance passed by the then-Chattanooga City Commission in 1971.
If a community s history is a woven tapestry of hues, then the fabric of Chattanooga features a golden thread highlighting its historic houses of worship.
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