Little Five Points

This guide to Little Five Points in Atlanta opens with a plywood skate ramp wheeled into the gap where a six-lane freeway was once planned to run straight through the neighborhood. It follows the late-1960s fight against that highway, led by war objector Don Bender and organizer Kelly Jordan, who went door to door with a neighborhood newspaper asking residents what they actually wanted instead: not boutiques, but a pharmacy, a dentist, a grocery store.