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On a bright, chilly morning in early March, members of the Atlanta civil rights community, business leaders and Georgia State University students, shuffled down Auburn Avenue. Personal reminiscences recorded by former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young provided accompaniment for the walk. Read More...
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The Center for Civil and Human Rights Partnership this week released "In Their Words: Andrew Young on Auburn Avenue," an original podcast to guide walking tours along downtown Atlanta's historic corridor.
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Daily Report
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
By ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press Writer
A civil and human rights museum planned for downtown Atlanta in 2010 could attract more than $1 billion and thousands of jobs to Georgia over the next decade, organizers say.
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Southern Voice
December 14, 2007
By Ryan Lee
While paying homage to widely celebrated civil rights icons and historical moments, leaders of Atlanta’s proposed Center for Civil & Human Rights say the facility aims to teach visitors that the civil rights movement didn’t start with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, nor was the gay rights movement invisible before the Stonewall Riots.
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Cox News Services
December 12, 2007
By Eric Stirgus
Imagine a place where you can read handwritten letters by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., look at records relating to the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the Rich's boycott and see items from Maynard Jackson's historic 1973 mayoral campaign.
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Cox News Services
December 11, 2007
By Eric Stirgus
A proposed civil and human rights center in Atlanta would draw 650,000 visitors a year, create 1,150 jobs and add $1.1 billion during the next 10 years to Georgia's economy, according to a report prepared for center organizers.
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