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National Center for Civil and Human Rights CEO Doug Shipman, center, explains exhibits on the third floor, including Poland's Lech Walesa, top right, and Tiananmen Square's anonymous "tank man" bottom, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Atlanta. The main exhibits include: the King papers on the first floor, the second floor main entrance, open space and mural, the lunch counter, interactive TV displays, Freedom Rider Bus, and stained glass portraits of four girls killed during violence in Alabama, and the third floor showcases the global human rights footprint with intimate cone-shaped movie theaters and a villains and champions exhibit. David Tulis / AJC Special

Credit: David Tulis

Credit: David Tulis

National Center for Civil and Human Rights CEO Doug Shipman, center, explains exhibits on the third floor, including Poland's Lech Walesa, top right, and Tiananmen Square's anonymous "tank man" bottom, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Atlanta. The main exhibits include: the King papers on the first floor, the second floor main entrance, open space and mural, the lunch counter, interactive TV displays, Freedom Rider Bus, and stained glass portraits of four girls killed during violence in Alabama, and the third floor showcases the global human rights footprint with intimate cone-shaped movie theaters and a villains and champions exhibit. David Tulis / AJC Special
By Bo Emerson
June 20, 2014

The third floor of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights includes Poland's Lech Walesa and Tiananmen Square's anonymous "tank man."

A map in the museum's human rights exhibit shows the conditions of human rights across the globe. Six illuminated figures in the main room depict human rights defenders, while off to one side are human rights "villains," including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The life-size images are pictured in black and while, standing against a wall, their height measured off in inches, as if in preparation for a mug shot.

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