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is where you can experience Dr. Martin Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center Luther King, Jr.’s dream of equality, peace and Cartersville - Built in 1923, this was the first prosperity for all, a dream that earned him the school in northwest GA specifically dedicated 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The Martin Luther King, to the education of African American children. Jr. National Historic Site commemorates the area noblehillwheelercom of where Dr. King was born and raised. Tour Dr. King’s historic birth home and visit the The Atlanta History Center famed , where Dr. King Atlanta - Explore the Tullie Smith Farm was baptized and later served as co-pastor. featuring a restored 1840s Yoeman Farm Known as the “Sweet Auburn” district, this with outbuildings, a cabin and slave garden neighborhood was the center of the city’s black exploring the African American experience in community prior to desegregation and served 19th Century Northern Georgia. as a focal point in the . atlantahistorycenter.com

Established in 1773, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah is the oldest independent Atlanta - “From Civil War to Civil Rights:” This black church in North America. Visit the current guided walking tour lasts approximately 45 structure, erected in 1859 with stained glass minutes. A historian will lead your group of 11 windows of African American figures, and dis- different historical sites, noting facts and inter- cover the beauty and history of this landmark. esting tidbits on the history of Underground Savannah, known for its cotton warehouses and and the city of Atlanta. elegant architecture, remains a place where underground-atlanta.com wide streets and lush green squares invite you to walk through the nation’s largest registered Hot Corner Urban Historic Landmark District. Athens - The corner of Washington and Hull Streets in Athens was an early center of black Uncover Harriet Tubman’s remarkable story commerce, including the dental offices of Ida at the Tubman African American Museum in May Hiram, the first African American woman to Macon, the largest African American museum in pass the Georgia Dental Board exams. Also here the state. Visit the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of is the The Morton Theatre, one of the oldest Black History in Augusta, which utilizes art and surviving vaudeville theatres built, owned and history to present the life and legacy of Lucy operated by African American Monroe Bowers Craft Laney, a Georgia educator. “Pink” Morton. The theatre hosted such notables as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith In , visit the Albany Civil and Louis Armstrong. Morton was laid to rest at Rights Movement Museum, located in the his- Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery which can be found on toric Freedom District of Downtown. The mu- the National Park Service’s National Register of seum chronicles Albany and its role in the Civil Historic Places. Rights Movement in the 1960s. Be sure to take visitathensga.com in the Thomasville Black Heritage Trail Tour. This venue honors Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, a Thomasville native who, in 1877, became the first African American to graduate from the Military Academy at West Point.

other African American Georgia’s African American Heritage heritage sites around Georgia Discover a state deeply rooted in African American heritage, culture and history. Emery Center Georgia is where many battles for equal rights began in America. From the early Dalton - The site of Dalton’s first public school coastal slave settlements to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, threads of building, this was built in 1886 to address the Georgia’s vibrant heritage are woven throughout the state into a tapestry of arts educational needs of African American children and music, dynamic leaders, enduring icons and rich spirit. between the ages of seven and sixteen. daltoncvb.com/africanamericans.html

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Morgan County Hog Hammock Community on As you continue to educate yourself African-American Museum on Georgia’s historic past, you’ll Madison - An institution dedicated to Sapelo Island - This community is the last intact learn many prominent African preserving African American heritage and Geechee/ community in the Sea Islands of Americans hail from Georgia, promoting awareness of the contributions of Georgia and comprises direct descendants of slaves including Jackie Robinson, Andrew to the culture of the south. brought to Sapelo Island in 1802. Young, Harriet Tubman, James mcaam.org gastateparks.org/info/sapelo Brown and many more. Like Georgia, they represent a spirit and Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum desire to overcome adversity and Lucy Craft Laney Museum Columbus Black History Museum Savannah - Take the time to walk back into the era achieve the highest level of success. of Black History Columbus - Offering multimedia, authentic of segregation in Savannah. This museum chronicles Augusta - The Lucy Craft Laney Museum is the historical items, displays, documents and the civil rights struggle of Georgia’s oldest African only African-American Museum in the Central photos. Lectures and tours available. American community from slavery to present. Arts & Culture Savannah River Area. The museum, which columbusblackhistory.com opened in 1991, is a small house museum that savcivilrights.com From Atlanta to Savannah and from was the former home of Miss Lucy Craft Laney. Horace King, Master Bridge Builder The King – Tisdell Cottage Athens to Columbus, a variety of Ms. Lucy Craft has gone down in history as and Architect Savannah - This cottage is an African American places and events tell the African one of the state of Georgia’s most influential LaGrange - Former slave who built covered heritage museum named for its African American American story in the Peach educational leaders. bridges and other structures in Georgia and owners, Eugene and Sarah King and Robert Tisdell. State. See magnificent theaters lucycraftlaneymuseum.com Alabama is buried in LaGrange. The Troup This museum of African-American Savannah and the and museums, unique galleries County Archives contain much information Sea Islands is owned and operated by the King-Tisdell and experience the rich musical Springfield Baptist Church and Park about him and his family. Also, visit the Horace Cottage Foundation, which also owns and operates the history in Georgia’s thriving arts & Augusta - The oldest African American King historic marker on King Street. Negro Heritage Trail Tours and the Beach Institute on cultural scene. Scenic back roads tie Baptist Church in the nation with continuous trouparchives.org service, it is also the founding home of the corner of Price and Harris Streets. visitors to Georgia’s past, guiding Morehouse College. 706.724.1056 kingtisdell.org them through colorful countryside Ray Charles Statue and picturesque main streets. The Albany - A revolving, lighted bronze statue of National Black Arts Festival in Ray Charles sits in the middle of the , Sapelo Island Cultural Day, plaza. Charles was born in Albany in 1930 and Sea Islands Black Heritage Festival, his version of “Georgia On My Mind” was made Black Heritage Festival of Southwest the official state song in 1979. Georgia in Thomasville and the albanyga.com Gathering at Geechee Kunda in Riceboro are just a sampling of Jack Hadley Black History Museum annual events across the state. Thomasville - James “Jack” Hadley was an avid collector and curator of Black History Memora- bilia. His collection traces Black American history GullaH/Geechee from pre-slavery to the present. jackhadleyblackhistorymuseum.com Culture

Okefenokee Heritage Center In 2006, Congress designated “From These Roots” the barrier islands and costal re- Waycross - A black heritage exhibition focusing gions along Ocean on the contributions African Americans made to as the Gullah/Geechee Heritage this community. Corridor. The corridor spans the okefenokeeheritagecenter.org coast through four states: North Carolina, , Georgia Seabrook Village and . Sapelo Island, one of Midway - An African American turn-of-the- Georgia’s barrier islands, is home to Museum of Aviation century community and Dorcester Academy the Hog Hammock Gullah /Geechee Warner Robbins - Featuring an Air Force 50th National Historic Place, Seabrook Village was community. Only accessible by Anniversary exhibit, “America’s Black Eagles – founded after the Civil War as a school for ferry, this Gullah/Geechee commu- the Tuskegee Pioneers…and Beyond,” built to freed slaves. nity descends from slaves brought recognize the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII and the seabrookvillage.org to the island in 1802. The ruins of achievements of black Americans in aviation. Chocolate Plantation, founded museumofaviation.org in the early 1800s, still stand on Sapelo Island today.

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