The Mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970, who helped usher in an era of desegregation in the city. While in office he ordered officials to remove all white ' and colored ' signs from facilities in city hall and he was also one of the only white southern politicians to testify before Congress on behalf of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He first became the CEO of the Ivan Allen Company in 1946, after his father stepped down from the position.
