Remembering King: Visit these historic sites

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Remembering King: Visit these historic sites

King Center for Social Change
449 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
The King Center is at the hub of a 23-acre National Historic Site which brings one million visitors each year. Free attractions include the King birth home, the crypt of Dr. and Mrs. King, exhibits at Freedom Hall and reflecting pool.
PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

King birth home
501 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
Much of the furniture and furnishings inside this cozy, yellow, two-story clapboard house with dark brown trim, purchased by King’s grandfather in 1909 for $3,500, is original. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

The Center for Human and Civil Rights.
100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd. in downtown Atlanta.
The center looks at the intersection of the local story of the civil rights movement and the ongoing national story of the evolution of human rights. (REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)

Fire Station No. 6 museum
39 Boulevard NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
Fire Station No. 6 was built in 1894 and served the Sweet
Auburn community until 1991. Hear about the desegregation of the Atlanta Fire Department and view a 1927 American LaFrance fire engine at the museum.
(REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)

Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
407 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
Throughout its long history, Ebenezer Baptist Church has been a spiritual home to many citizens of the "Sweet Auburn" community. Its most famous member, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was baptized as a child in the church.
(FRANK NIEMEIR/AJC staff)

The New Ebenezer Baptist Church
101 Jackson St NE, Atlanta, GA 30312
The church is shown in the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District. To accommodate a growing congregation and hundreds of weekly visitors, Ebenezer Baptist Church built its new 2,000-seat Horizon Sanctuary across the street from the old sanctuary. The original building, now known as the Heritage Sanctuary, is a popular destination for tourists. (REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)

Georgia State Capitol
The summer of 2017, Gov. Nathan Deal officiated at a ceremony unveiling a new 8-foot statue of King on the northeast quadrant of the State Capitol grounds. The statue was unveiled on the anniversary of King's famed "I Have Dream" speech.
BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM

Old Butler Street YMCA
24 Jesse Hill Jr Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
This building became a center of social life by providing recreation and supervised activity space for younger blacks and a meeting place for older blacks. Many of Atlanta's young black men belonged to the Y and used it as a recreation center. Martin Luther King, Jr. was influenced as a youth by his membership here.
(REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)

Auburn Avenue Research Library
101 Auburn Ave NE Atlanta
The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History is a special library within the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, located in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District.
(REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)

MLK International chapel plaza Morehouse College
833 Fair Street
Morehouse College was fertile ground for the young Martin Luther King Jr., who entered the College as an early-admission student in 1944 at the age of 15. (REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM)

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King Center for Social Change 449 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312 The King Center is at the hub of a 23-acre National Historic Site which brings one million visitors each year. Free attractions include the King birth home, the crypt of Dr. and Mrs. King, exhibits at Freedom Hall and reflecting pool. PHIL SKINNER / PSKINNER@AJC.COM

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