This is the fall line.

Well, after I had Raymond, like I said, the labor was very, very fast.

And I was happy that it was a beautiful boy, beautiful baby boy.

I was in awe with him.

The year was 1978. Atlanta's police department was in the midst of a hiring and promotion freeze that stemmed from a series of discrimination lawsuits.

According to Grady Hospital's website, that same year, quote, a medical school was established at Morehouse College to assume up to half the responsibility for patient care, medical education, and clinical research at Grady.

In January, UK banned the sex pistols played their first American show right here in Atlanta.

This is notable mostly because the bassist said vicious, slit his wrists after the show.

He wasn't taken to Grady. He ended up at Piedmont Hospital's emergency room.

That spring brought record high temperatures. Atlanta's first black mayor, Mayer Jackson, was in his first term of office.

In the fall of 1978, the city was comparatively quiet. The first of the Atlanta child murders was still months away.

November 1st was not a major moment in Atlanta's story, but it was and is in Donna Greens.

On this day, her son, Raymond Lamar Green Jr. was born at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Raymond was Donna's second child with the man who would later become her husband, Raymond Green Sr.

She was 16 and her daughter wasn't yet too. She lived at the Carver Homes housing project with her parents, her siblings, and her oldest child.

In Atlanta, many public housing units had that home suffix attached. Techwood, Bowen, Grady, Perry, Capital.

One of the children's slain in the Atlanta child murders, Charles Stevens, was actually killed on his way to the Carver Complex.

Carver Homes has since been demolished and effect of Atlanta trying to dispel its reputation as what Creed of Loping called, quote,

one of the worst public housing providers in the country. It was eventually replaced with Carver Village, which had a limited number of subsidized apartments available.

The Carver Homes daughter remembers are different from the stories that popped up in late 80s Atlanta reporting.

In local paper Creed of Loping, residents describe pushing couches in front of their doors to keep the drug crime out.

According to longtime residents, the crime in Carver was at first limited to a building or two. Places you just didn't go, but eventually spread out and through the complex.

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