This video is "a recognition of people who made the sacrifices to change how we live in Chattanooga" according to Jacqueline Strong Moss, Office of Multicultural Affairs. The Office of Multicultural Affairs asks residents to nominate people from various ethnic and religious backgrounds. These are the winners for 2007. A luncheon was held to announce the winners and the proceeds will benefit the M.L. King Memorial project.

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream "cosmopolitanism" back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For...