Pete Corson

This year’s running of the Northside Hospital Peachtree Road Race could be one of the hottest in the race’s history. The Atlanta Track Club announced Thursday that the race will start under red flag conditions, the first time since 2017. The National Weather Service forecast for Saturday morning predicts it could be almost 80 degrees at the starting line at 7 a.m. By 9 a.m., the heat index — or “feels like” temperature, which takes humidity into account — is forecast to be 86 degrees.

On the week of May 17, 1954, many white Georgians reacted in shock, denial and anger when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the Brown v Board of Education case, striking down segregation in the nation’s public schools. State leaders expressed defiance and immediately set out to find ways to delay compliance. Here is how The Atlanta Journal and Constition newspapers covered the events of that week, beginning with the Journal’s afternoon edition, presented above.