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July 1974 -- Martin Luther King Sr. grieves during the funeral service of his wife, Alberta Williams King. Mrs. King, 69, was shot to death by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault as she played the organ during a service at Ebenezer Baptist Church near downtown Atlanta. BILL MAHAN / AJC FILE
Deja News: The 1974 funeral of Alberta King
The restored, vintage replica of the Freedom Riders' 1961 transportation in on display Wednesday, June 23, 2021 on Auburn Ave. near MLK's childhood home. The exhibit is a mobile extension from the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery, AL and is now on tour. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
PHOTOS: Freedom Riders Bus replica makes stop at Martin Luther King Center
Atlanta Pride is celebrating 50 years of support, aid, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride in 2021. This rare image of the first march on June 27, 1971, is from unused WSB-TV footage, and shows Gay Liberation Front leader Bill Smith leading the crowd of marchers. (Courtesy of WSB Newsfilm Collection, University of Georgia Libraries)
Flashback Photos: Atlanta's Gay Pride march through the years
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Elroy and Sophia Williams hold a photo of Sophia's grandparents, who were born in slavery but accumulated 1,200 acres of farmland and contributed two acres for a Rosenwald school. They are standing in that structure, the former Hopewell School in Bastrop County, Texas, which Elroy is working to preserve Photo: Andrew Feiler
PHOTOS: Atlanta photographer documents Rosenwald Schools
When it opened in June 1949, Atlanta's Starlight Drive-In had a 900-car capacity and was hailed as the city's premier new outdoor theater. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHS / GSU
Flashback Photos: The golden days of Atlanta's drive-in theaters
Downtown Connector near 14th Street on April 18, 1961.
Flashback Photos: 60 years ago in Georgia, 1961, Part One
The Coca-Cola sign at Margaret Mitchell Square in January 1981. Photo: Louie Favorite.
Flashback Photos: 1981 again, 40 years ago in Georgia, Part 3
Plaza Drugs, seen here in December 1981, has been an Atlanta landmark since 1951. This photo was taken by former AJC staff photographer Ray West, the father of Kanye West. (Ray West/AJC staff)
Flashback Photos: More 1981, 40 years ago in Georgia, Part Two
Greenbriar Mall opened to great fanfare in Sept. 1965. Touted as the linchpin for future economic growth on Atlanta's southwest side, the mall was envisioned as being more than just another shopping center. FLOYD JILLSON / AJC FILE
AJC Deja News: Greenbriar envisioned as more than just another mall (1964)
Original caption: "A famous landmark At Brunswick: Beneath this spreading tree, now known as 'Lanier's Oak,' Sidney Lanier, beloved poet of the South, received his inspiration for the immortal poem, 'The Marshes of Glynn.'" WALTER FRANK WINN / AJC PHOTO ARCHIVES
Flashback Photos: Scenes from Middle and South Georgia, Pt. 1
Academy Theatre, in the Erlanger Theater building (583 Peachtree Street), Atlanta, Georgia, June 15, 1981. George A. Clark / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Archives
Flashback Photos: 40 years ago in Georgia, 1981, Part One
The Centers for Disease Control, founded here in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, originally focused on malaria control but now handles a wide range of public health issues. In this 1988 photo, Bertha Farrah, left, and Gilda Perez, medical technologists at the CDC virology lab, work in the maximum containment lab for the most dangerous viruses. The pair work wearing 15-pound laminated plastic suits connected to oxygen lines. RICH ADDICKS / AJC FILE
Flashback Photos: The CDC in Atlanta
Central of Georgia billboard next to Terminal Station in May 1946.
Flashback Photos: More 1946, 75 years ago in Georgia
A group of girls dash toward the entrance of Girls High School in 1946, as the cars line up on their specially built tracks in the yard behind the building. Busing across town was necessary for girls and boys before community high schools were created in 1947.
Flashback Photos: 1946, 75 years ago in Georgia, Part One
1960 -- Original caption: "Movie censor defends her role. Mrs. Christine Gilliam reviews 'Never on Sunday' with Library Board members." SPECIAL TO AJC
Flashback Photos: When Atlanta had a film censor
Traffic at Peachtree Street at Five Points in downtown Atlanta in 1943. LBGPNS10-002h, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
Flashback photos: 75 years ago in wartime Georgia, 1943
Amoco Gas State at the corenr of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street in January 1958. LBGPNS10-130a, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976. Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
Flashback photos: 60 years ago on the streets of Atlanta, 1958
From the inscription: "Gainesville, winter 1909. Men standing beside a streetcar on North Green Street during an ice storm. This enclosed winter car ran from the Southern Railway depot at the end of Main Street to Chattahoochee Park at the end of Riverside Drive. Streetcars pulled by horses first made their appearance in Gainesville in 1874. Dr. Robert E. Green was the proprietor of this enterprise. The tracks ran from the Southern Railway depot on Main Street to the public square. The first streetcars to run on electric rails were seen in 1903. Over the years the lines were expanded. In 1928 some of the tracks in the business district were taken up. During World War II the rest of them were removed so that the materials could be used in the war effort." However, this photograph is almost certainly from January 31, 1908. Two ice storms devastated Gainesville one week apart, one on January 31 and the other on February 9/10, 1908. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Archives at Georgia State University
Flashback photos: A brief history of Georgia deep freezes
Astronomers watching the solar eclipse through telescopes and special lenses, somewhere in Fulton County on May 30, 1984.
Flashback photos: Eclipses past in Georgia and beyond
Aerial view at night, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1964. J.C. Lee. »» SEE MORE FLASHBACK FOTOS FROM THE AJC ARCHIVES.
Flashback photos: Aerial Atlanta, the city from above 1905-1988
Standing on a dirt road with a mountain cabin in the background, a widow holds her infant, while five children stand at her side; her husband was killed in a shooting. Georgia mountains, ca. 1930. AJC file.
Flashback Photos: The North Georgia mountains, 1930s-1989
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