ATLANTA APEX Milton’s Drugstore The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Located in the historic School Book Depository At the former site of Yates & Milton Drug Store (presently The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Martin Luther , Jr. National Historical Park building in the heart of Atlanta’s Historic the Student Center on the campus of Clark Atlanta administered by the National and Record The experience at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National District, the APEX Museum is dedicated to telling the University), a 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 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 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 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 . 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 , 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 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 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 . 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 , 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 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, 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 ’s most important 7:30 a.m. – 12 a.m. Martin Luther King, Jr. Statue at the Georgia State Capitol National Historical Park. Visit the outdoor memorial with historical African American communities. Since the late Friday 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. The Martin Luther King, Jr. statue at the Georgia State Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King’s 19th century, the district has been home to numerous Saturday 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Capitol was unveiled on Aug. 28, 2017. The bronze statue crypt surrounded by reflecting pools and an eternal flame. African American-owned businesses and schools, many Sunday 12 p.m. – 12 a.m. rises 8 feet atop a 36-inch pedestal with MLK engraved Follow the walkway into Freedom Hall to see art from the first of their kind in Atlanta or the nation. The Martin in on the Georgia granite. Atlanta-based sculptor Africa and Georgia, and browse exhibits that honor Dr. and Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park, Big Bethel A.M.E. 111 James P. Brawley Dr. SW Martin Dawe of Cherrylion Studios designed the bronze Mrs. King, Mahatma Gandhi and . Don’t miss the Church and King Center are all important features of Atlanta, GA 30314 statue with King facing . bookstore/gift shop and resource center. the district, along with the popular Sweet Auburn Curb (404) 978-2000 Market. The neighborhood is represented by Sweet auctr.edu Northeast Quadrant Hours: Daily 9 a.m. – Auburn Works, the district’s voice for implementing Main Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. 5 p.m., excluding Street projects and activities that promote commerce, and Capitol Ave. Thanksgiving, Christmas visitation and sustainability of historic places. Atlanta, GA 30334 Eve, Christmas and New South-View Year’s Day. Sweet Auburn Works South-View Cemetery was founded in 1886 by formerly 522 Auburn Ave. enslaved African Americans who protested the treatment 449 Auburn Ave. NE Atlanta, GA 30312 they received at Atlanta’s segregated . Rev. Atlanta, GA 30312 (470) 240-4909 Martin Luther King, Sr. and his wife Alberta Williams King (404) 526-8900 sweetauburnworks.com are interred in a marble crypt at South-View. When their thekingcenter.org son, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968, Morehouse College his body was temporarily interred at South-View before Morehouse College, founded in 1867, is a historically being relocated to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National black, private liberal arts college for men. One of the Historical Park. college’s most distinguished alumni is Martin Luther Prince Hall King, Jr., who graduated in 1948. The Martin Luther King, The Prince Hall Masonic Temple, located in the Sweet South-View Cemetery offers docent-led walking tours Jr. International Chapel has hosted more than 1 million Auburn Historic District, was the headquarters for the featuring the gravesites of notable African American people for community and spiritual programs since it Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during leaders as well as lesser-known African Americans who opened in 1978. The chapel features a 2,500-capacity the 1960s and is a component of the Martin Luther King, were significant in Atlanta’s history. Special group tours auditorium, a 6,000-pipe organ and a Hall of Honor Jr. National Historical Park. In 1957, following the successful are available by reservation. The cemetery also offers a with 158 oil portraits of world leaders in the civil and , Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. free self-guided cell phone walking/driving tour. human rights movement, and a bust of Mahatma Gandhi. invited 60 black ministers to Ebenezer Baptist Church to On the adjoining plaza, the chapel memorializes two form an organization to support nonviolent Hours: Daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. theologians. There, visitors can see a bronze statue of to eliminate segregation in public accommodations and Dr. King, and the burial crypt and towering obelisk for secure voting rights. Dr. King was elected president of IMPORTANT HISTORIC SITES NOT OPEN 1990 Jonesboro Rd. SE Dr. Howard Washington Thurman. the organization, and a small office was established in the FOR VISITATION Atlanta, GA 30315 Prince Hall Masonic Temple. SCLC staff included , (404) 622-5393 830 Westview Dr. NW and . Following Dr. King’s Atlanta: southviewcemetery.com Atlanta, GA 30314 assassination, Rev. Ralph Elbert P. 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FOREWORD SAVANNAH First African Baptist Church Georgia is home to the official living memorial and First African Baptist Church premier institution that honors the life and legacy of is one of the oldest my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Founded in 1968 African American Baptist by my mother, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the Martin churches in North America. Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, The church was organized Inc. (The King Center) is dedicated to educating in 1773 by Rev. George the world on the life, legacy and teachings of my Leile, who preached to the father. Through our premiere educational initiative, enslaved people at Nonviolence365®, which is based on Dr. King’s Brampton Plantation. nonviolent philosophy and methodology, the King Center is committed to inspiring new generations In his dual role as president of the Savannah NAACP to carry forward his unfinished work and creating and pastor of First African Baptist Church, Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert led numerous voter registration drives and the Beloved Community. We are equipping the next demonstrations that led to integration of the Savannah generation of global leaders to lead the “King” way... Police Department and public facilities. During the 1960s, inspired by love for humanity. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at First African Baptist We are extremely excited about the Footsteps of Dr. Church. In 2017, the Georgia Historical Society and First Martin Luther King, Jr. Trail. This trail is an opportunity African Baptist Church erected a marker in front of the to walk in the footsteps of courage, love, sacrifice and church on Franklin Square. an unyielding commitment to humanity. As a traveler along the Footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Trail, Hours: Sunday services at 10 a.m. it is our hope that each step reminds you of the power Tours: Tuesday - Saturday 11 a.m., 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.; of collective strength and inspires you to continue Sunday 1 p.m. the work of ensuring freedom for each generation. REX 23 Montgomery St. STOCKBRIDGE You can follow in these footsteps across Georgia at your own pace while pushing the message of love and Savannah, GA 31401 humanity forward and stand where history happened. (912) 233-6597 firstafricanbc.com #MLK50Forward.

Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum MIDWAY The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum chronicles the civil rights movement in Savannah, Georgia’s oldest city. The museum is named in honor of Rev. Ralph Mark Together we win, Gilbert, who was the pastor of First African Baptist Bernice A. King ​ Church from 1939 to 1956 and president of the Savannah branch of the NAACP from 1942 to 1948. His civil rights legacy included establishment of the West Broad Street YMCA, hiring of Savannah’s first black police officers and voter registration drives for the NAACP. Explore photographs and interactive exhibits on the museum’s three levels that capture key civil rights struggles in Savannah, including demonstrations at Savannah’s Levy’s Department Store, and a theater with seating that ExploreGeorgia.org/Footsteps resembles pews in African American churches.

Georgia Department of Economic Development Hours: Tuesday – Saturday Technology Square | 75 Fifth Street, NW, Suite 1200 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Atlanta, Georgia 30308 460 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, GA 31401 (912) 777-6099