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Atlanta Important Historic Sites Not Open for Visitation ATLANTA APEX Museum Milton’s Drugstore The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Located in the historic Atlanta School Book Depository At the former site of Yates & Milton Drug Store (presently The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park building in the heart of Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Historic the Student Center on the campus of Clark Atlanta administered by the National Archives and Record The experience at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National District, the APEX Museum is dedicated to telling the University), a Georgia Historical Society marker tells Administration, is the repository of information and Historical Park begins when you approach the Visitor story of the people of the African Diaspora and their the story of the Atlanta Student Movement that began historical materials from the Carter presidency. Browse Center, passing by the Civil Rights Walk of Fame with shoe contributions to America and the world. Visit the museum in 1960. The movement began when three Morehouse the museum’s photographs, videos and rotating material imprints of pioneers in the American civil rights movement to see art and photographic exhibits that celebrate the College students — Lonnie King, Joseph Pierce and Julian from the collection, and walk through a life-size replica noted in the pavement. Along the walk is a statue of complete history of African Americans. Bond — formed the Committee on the Appeal for Human of the Oval Office. Researchers can access the library Mahatma Gandhi with inscribed quotes from the India Rights and involved all the historically black institutions archives that include more than 27 million pages of leader who greatly influenced King’s nonviolent movement Hours: Tuesday - of the Atlanta University Center (AUC). After Roslyn Pope documents related to the Carter presidency. for social change. The Visitor Center is surrounded by Saturday 10 a.m. – of Spelman College published “An Appeal for Human pathways and the International World Peace Rose Garden. 5 p.m., excluding Rights,” the AUC students conducted sit-ins at segregated Museum Hours: Monday – major holidays. lunch counters throughout Atlanta, movie theaters, Saturday 9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.; Hours: Daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. parks and the Georgia State Capitol. When the students Sunday 12 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. 135 Auburn Ave. NE targeted the Magnolia Room at Rich’s Department Store in Research Library Hours: 450 Auburn Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30303 downtown Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his brother Monday – Friday, Atlanta, GA 30312 (404) 523-2739 A.D. King joined them and were arrested with 77 student 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (404) 331-5190 apexmuseum.org demonstrators. Protests involving more than 2,000 nps.gov/malu students at businesses continued until October 1961, when 441 Freedom Pkwy. desegregation of the facilities was achieved. Atlanta, GA 30307 (404) 865-7100 Big Bethel A.M.E. Church Atlanta Student jimmycarterlibrary.gov One of the iconic churches in the Sweet Auburn Historic Movement Georgia District, Big Bethel A.M.E. Church stands out on the Historical Society Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home Atlanta skyline with its Jesus Saves sign on the church Marker Take a free guided tour of the home where Martin Luther steeple. The church was founded in 1840 for enslaved Corner of James National Center for Civil and Human Rights King, Jr. was born on Jan. 15, 1929, and lived until he members of the white Union Church, and it served many P. Brawley Dr. SW The Center for Civil and Human Rights is dedicated to was 12 years old. Located one block east of Historic functions during the Civil War, including a hospital. During and Atlanta Student the achievements of the American civil rights movement Ebenezer Baptist Church in the residential section of the Reconstruction, Bethel A.M.E. housed Atlanta’s first public Movement Blvd. as well as the worldwide human rights movement. Auburn Avenue Historic District, the Queen Anne-style, school for African Americans and Morris Brown College Atlanta, GA 30314 See rotating artifacts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s two-story house has been restored to its appearance in the basement. Big Bethel A.M.E. Church ministry has cau.edu youth through his assassination in the “Voice to the during King’s childhood. Free tours of Dr. King’s birth focused on civil rights since the movement days, from Voiceless: The Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. home are conducted hourly by the National Park Service. broadcasting sermons on Atlanta’s WERD radio stations Collection” exhibit. Learn more about significant events Registration is required at the Martin Luther King, Jr. to building low-income housing units, and providing in the movement and experience a simulation of a lunch National Historical Park Visitor Center and must be made services to poor and imprisoned people. Visitors are Rush Memorial Congregational Church counter sit-in demonstration in the “Rolls Down Like in person upon arrival. Tours are limited to 15 people. invited to attend church services on Sunday mornings. Located near the campus of Clark Atlanta University, Water: The American Civil Rights Movement” exhibit. Rush Memorial Congregational Church became the Explore interactive exhibits about modern-day activism Hours: Daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Hours: Sunday services headquarters for planning meetings of the Atlanta Student worldwide in “The Spark of Conviction: The Global at 7:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Movement. A Georgia Historical Society marker located in Human Rights Movement” exhibit. 501 Auburn Ave. NE front of the church tells the story of the church’s support Atlanta, GA 30312 220 Auburn Ave. NE for the movement. As the student movement gained Hours: Monday – Saturday (404) 331-5190 Atlanta, GA 30303 momentum, administrators at the black colleges would 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; nps.gov/malu (404) 827-9707 not allow the students to meet in campus facilities. Rev. Sunday 12 – 5 p.m. bigbethelame.org Joseph E. Boone, a civil rights activist, provided an office space for students, and the congregation assisted with 100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd. NW food and supplies. Atlanta, GA 30313 (678) 999-8990 Rush Memorial civilandhumanrights.org Congregational Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Wheat Street Baptist Church Church Georgia As part of your visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Wheat Street Baptist Church was organized during Historical Society Historical Park, tour the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Reconstruction to serve the African American Marker Auburn Avenue Research Library to see where Dr. King served as co-pastor with his father. communities in the Sweet Auburn and Old Fourth Ward 150 James P. Brawley The Auburn Avenue Research Library (AARL) is located Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. was Ebenezer’s third pastor, neighborhoods. Under the leadership of Rev. William Dr. SW in the heart of the Sweet Auburn Historic District. The leading the church from 1933 until he retired in 1975. Holmes Borders leading up to the civil rights movement, (Near the end of the library opened in 1994 as a special branch of the Atlanta- His son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., served as co-pastor in the church acquired land for development of Wheat James P. Brawley Fulton Public Library System to provide reference and 1947 until he attended Crozer Theological Seminary. He Street Gardens for low-income housing and Wheat walkway at the archival collections for scholarly research on African co-pastored Ebenezer again with his father from 1960 Street Towers, a high-rise building for seniors, which are intersection of American culture and history. AARL originally was until his assassination on April 4, 1968. See the sanctuary managed by the Wheat Street Charitable Foundation and Parsons St.) the Auburn branch of the Carnegie Library during and fellowship hall that have been restored to their provide affordable housing in the Sweet Auburn Historic Atlanta, GA 30314 segregation. Browse the library’s collections, including 1960s appearance. District. Wheat Street also established one of the first (404) 525-6320 the Samuel W. Williams Collection on Black America, federal credit unions in the South. Visitors are invited to rushmemorialucc.org textual and microform records, and numerous databases Hours: Monday - Saturday: attend worship services on Sunday mornings. on African American culture and the African Diaspora. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 - 5 p.m. Hours: Sunday services Hours: Sunday 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.; at 10:30 a.m. Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library Monday & Friday 407 Auburn Ave. NE Well-known as the repository for the Morehouse College 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.; Atlanta, GA 30312 359 Auburn Ave. NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, the Atlanta University Tuesday & Saturday (404) 331-5190 Atlanta, GA 30312 Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library provides students 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; nps.gov/malu (404) 659-4328 and faculty with a state-of-the-art learning and research Wednesday & Thursday wearewheatstreet.org facility. Researchers can access the King Collection, which 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. includes 1,100 books from Dr. King’s personal library with his handwritten notes and memorabilia from his civil rights 101 Auburn Ave. NE activities. The Robert W. Woodruff Library also houses Atlanta, GA 30303 public meeting spaces, exhibits and the John Henrik (404) 613-4001 The King Center Clarke Africana and African American collection. afpls.org/aarl In 1968, Coretta Scott King established the Martin Luther Sweet Auburn Historic District King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Nestled in the heart of Atlanta, centered along a mile- Hours: Center), and it moved to its present location in 1981 and-a-half stretch of Auburn Avenue, the Sweet Auburn Monday – Thursday adjacent to Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Historic District houses one of the city’s most important 7:30 a.m.
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