barricade, with the image of the two meeting published in a January 1963 issue of Jet. Many other publications and journalists from across the United States covered the incident as well, with Time discussing the event in an article called "Divided City." On January 7, 1963, Atlanta's board of aldermen voted in favor of keeping the barricade in place, and following this the attorney representing those opposed to the barricade appealed his case to the Fulton County Superior Court. On March 1, 1963, a judge ruled the barrier unconstitutional, calling the decision to erect the barricade "unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious". Within minutes of the decision Allen ordered the barricade to be removed. According to Allen, the day the judge was set to render his decision, he had a crew set up near the barricade, and after hearing the decision, they had it completely removed within 20 minutes. The barrier had remained in place for 72 days. Aftermath Following the removal of the barricades, the neighborhood and surrounding area continued to undergo a racial transformation, amplified by white flight from the area and Atlanta as a whole. Many middle class African American families moved into the area, and by July 1963, only 15 white families remained in the neighborhood. The incident also drew national attention to race relations in the city, with a 2015 article in Curbed Atlanta stating that the event "became a national poster child of 1960s white-flight". During the 1960s and 1970s, approximately 160,000 white Americans moved from Atlanta, with many moving to nearby areas outside of city limits, and today, Cascade Heights is home to many "black elites" in Atlanta. The incident also change the city government's approach to segregation through urban planning, with one history book claiming that, following the incident, "Atlanta's planners and policymakers simply pulled back the lines of resistance in select neighborhoods and took their stand along a broader perimeter that separated whites from blacks." Criticism of the incident surprised Allen, who had believed that the barricade would put more focus on unused land north of Cascade Heights. Discussing the event years later in his autobiography, Allen claimed he was "completely in error in trying to solve the issue in such a crude way" and stated that he had not sought out sufficient advice prior to his decision. According to a biography on Allen, the incident was "the last time a roadblock was