The new neighborhood was called Carver Hills, named for George Washington Carver, famous Black scientist and inventor. It was located where Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and I-285 meet. The houses were primarily built between 1945 and 1950.

Residents of DeWald’s Alley rented from Clyde and Susie DeWald, who lived nearby on Spruill Road, later known as Meadow Lane Road. Susie DeWald would go door to door collecting rent each month. The houses of DeWald’s Alley had outhouses, no electricity, and well water. Pumps were eventually installed.

Douglas recalls that Lonnie King conceived the Atlanta Student Movement in 1960. King (no relation to Martin Luther King, Jr.) brought students together to form the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights. His plan was to desegregate all public accommodations in the city of Atlanta.

Narvie Jordan Harris supervised all Black schools in DeKalb County beginning in 1944 as Jeanes Supervisor for the county. She continued in this role until desegregation in 1968. The Jeanes Supervisor program was initially funded by a one-million-dollar donation of Philadelphia Quaker Anna Jeanes in 1907. Jeanes Supervisors were Black educators hired to oversee Black schools across the United States.

3600 Black recuits were sent to Camp Gordon for training. Camp Gordon was a World War I encampment built in early 1917 on land that now includes DeKalb-Peachtree Airport located in Chamblee, Georgia.

Convict leasing and chain gangs are part of the history of the Southeast, Georgia, and also Sandy Springs. Until 1933, there was a convict labor camp and rock quarry at the intersection of Roswell Road and Hammond Drive where Whole Foods is today. The camp and quarry extended across the area between Hammond Drive and Cliftwood Road on the west side of Roswell Road. The rock quarry included the land behind SunTrust Bank, where there is a sharp drop off going down towards Sandy Springs Circle.

The DeLong family once owned one hundred fifty-five acres in the Dunwoody community along what is now Spalding Drive. Today this land is part of Sandy Springs in Fulton County, but when the DeLongs lived there it was part of Milton County.