Mozley Park is a typical early 20th-century residential neighborhood, located approximately three miles west of downtown Atlanta.

The only other non-residential building in the district is the Frank Lebby Stanton Elementary School, named for Georgia's first poet laureate.

In 1937, a black physician bought three lots in Mozley Park but abandoned his building plans after work crews were threatened.

In 1941 city officials considered building a parkway that would serve as a physical barrier to black areas to Mozley Park's east.

[3] In 1948, William A. Scott, Jr., an African American and the son of the Atlanta Daily World founder, built his home on the corner of Mozely Place and Chappell Road.

In 1949 some white residents formed the Mozley Park Home Owners' Protective Association (MPHOPA) to stem the expansion of black residents, whose leaders stated their intentions to buy back homes in the "white" sections and establish a voluntary boundary line for "Negro expansion".

White residents reorganized the MPHOPA into the much larger Southwest Citizens' Association and lobbied Mayor Hartsfield who in 1952 presented a plan to build a six-lane highway along Westview Drive — but financing stalled and it would only be built years later as part Interstate 20.