ATLANTA Pride Rainbow Watercolor Map: PRINTATLANTA, Georgia. This cosmopolitan city rose from the ashes of Sherman's March to the Sea to become the capital of the "New South" by the late nineteenth century. Home to Martin Luther King, Jr. and other revered leaders in the mid twentieth century, Atlanta served as the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement, a place where the descendants of slaves rose over the preceding century in education, social life and the trades and arts and the city came to