Atlanta's Berlin Wall

Atlanta's Berlin Wall
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
An image of the barricade
Date	December 17, 1962 – March 1, 1963
Location	Cascade Heights, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Caused by	Fear of racial integration by white homeowners in Cascade Heights
Resulted in	Barricades ruled unconstitutional by a Federal judge, removed shortly thereafter Racial transformation of Cascade Heights Increase in white flight from Atlanta

Atlanta's Berlin Wall, also known as the Peyton Road Affair^[1] or the Peyton Wall,^[2] refers to an event during the civil rights movement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in 1962. On December 17 of that year, the government of Atlanta, led by mayor Ivan Allen Jr., erected a barricade in the Cascade Heights neighborhood, mostly along Peyton Road, for the purposes of dissuading African Americans from moving into the neighborhood. The act was criticized by many African American leaders and civil rights groups in the city, and on March 1 of the following year the barricade was ruled unconstitutional and removed. The incident is seen as one of the most public examples of white Americans' fears of racial integration in Atlanta.