Photos: Atlanta's Freaknik through the years

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PHOTOS: Looking back at Freaknik

Gallery of photos from Freaknik, the black college student spring break event in Atlanta in the early 1990s.

1996: Late-night Freaknik partygoers flood the parking lot of the Catfish Station, across from City Hall East.

1995: Traffic, the Freaknik staple.

1996: Late-night traffic at a standstill on the 75/85 Connector, heading north. Motorists become pedestrians on the interstate.

1996: Michelle Marshall (right) and her friend (no ID) show off their Freaknik fashion sense on a sunroof ride through downtown.

1996: It's 3 a.m. and late night party goers, Brandy Jackson from Atlanta, are still flooding Ponce De Leon Avenue.

1995: About 30 Clark Atlanta University students march outside the Woodruff Library on the CAU campus protesting sexism during Freaknik.

1998: Ambra Southern, 17, (from Left) La'Sheah Sims, 17, Kentura Smith, 18, and Stephanie Johnson, 18, look over the sunglasses at a vendor's booth outside Clark Atlanta University's student Center on the eve of Freaknik. The students were on an organized spring break and tour of black college from Cretes-Monee High School in Chicago.

1999: A sea of people flood Auburn Avenue on a Freaknik Saturday.

1997: Posing for a photo along Lee Street are Missy Moore, 16 (from left), Shaune' Leonard, 20, and Toia Williams, 20. All three came to Freaknik from from Hammond, Ind. Gordon Green is the photographer. Shifrin)

1995: Some original Freaknik organizers (front row from left) Marcus Wilson and Tony Moses (back row from left) Maritza Maldonado, Monique Jackson , Tracy Jordan, Cassandra Morgan, Andre Burks and driver John Williams.

1996: Freaknik crowds on Peachtree Street were smaller than the year before.

1997: A pair of Freaknik revelers jump atop their car as it travels down Carnegie Way near the Americana Hotel and the old bus terminal downtown.

1996: Morehouse graduate William Simkins tries to sell Spelman student Celeste Springer a pair of Freaknik souvenir boxer shorts for $5 during the Sweet Auburn Street Freedom Festival.

1996: Bob Whitehead, who owns Flowers by The Vineyard near the Atlanta University Center, puts out his welcome sign.

1995: A big crowd shows up for court in Atlanta on the Monday after Freaknik.

1996: People on foot and in cars jam Marietta Street at the intersection of Peachtree Street as night begins to fall.

1997: Members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity from various schools display 'strolling'.

1997: Freaknik participants from New York pass off the video camera on Marietta Street.

1993: Revelers in downtown brought traffic to a standstill.

1994: The crowd dances and celebrates at Piedmont Park.

1994: Wearing a sticker on his hat, William Simms stands on Peachtree Street watching the Freaknik crowds walk by.

Men and women video one another near the AUC campus in 1994 during Freaknik. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution file photo).

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1996: Late-night Freaknik partygoers flood the parking lot of the Catfish Station, across from City Hall East.

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