The social construction of Atlanta is a structurally violent process where a pro-growth movement — led by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and executed by the majority-Black junior partners of capital — restructured the political economy into a neoliberal pillaging of Black working class bodies, labor, and land. Through the lens of the Black working class and their neighborhood social movement capacity, we can fully interpret the complex social relations of the class warfare responsible for Atlanta’s transformation into the central hub of global capital accumulation and circulation in the U.S. South.