It's OFFICIAL! Civil rights center to be built in downtown Atlanta! (house, move to)

[brent6969]

Originally Posted by cityfilms

No foreclosure crises in alabama, yeah, I think Alabama is happy not being Georgia.

Are you kidding????

[Columbuskidd92]

This Civil rights center should be build in columbus,not atlanta.

[arjay57]

I just don't want it to turn out to be dinky. 30,000 sf is not huge, and it's going in there right next to the Aquarium and the World of Coke.

[ATLTJL]

Can APD donate a few uniforms from the Red Dog unit for the Atlanta Eagle exhibit?

Oh, wait, I'm sure they are only going to care about the civil rights of African Americans.

[Ray7000]

With all respect, I follow history (especially southern) very well. So, can you please specify what piviotal role that Atlanta played in the Civil Rights Movement?

[Ray7000]

Yeah, Columbus or Albany, GA.

[chiatldal]

Originally Posted by Ray7000

With all respect, I follow history (especially southern) very well. So, can you please specify what piviotal role that Atlanta played in the Civil Rights Movement?

Before the civil right movement of the 50s and 60s. Booker T Washington wrote "the atlanta compromise", W. E. B. Du Bois wrote his earliest writings in Atlanta "the souls of black folk". Marcus Garvey was sent to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Booker T Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey philosophies, influence the leaders of the civil right moment. There philosophies were very different regarding civil rights, and they strongly disagree with each other regarding there views. But oddly enough all 3 of them, Atlanta played a pivotal role in there lives, there views and staging them.

The Atlanta Compromise
Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech

Of the Wings of Atalanta, from The souls of black folk
V. Of the Wings of Atalanta. Du Bois, W. E. B. 1903. The Souls of Black Folk

A Litany Of Atlanta
A Litany Of Atlanta by W E B Du Bois Classic Famous Poet - All Poetry.

First Message to the Negroes of the World From Atlanta Prison
Marcus Garvey, First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison

Atlanta is MLK home town The SCLC was locate in Atlanta during the civial right movement and still is. This is the civil right organization that MLK lead, The Albany Movement, The Birmingham campaign, The Selma to Montgomery marches and etc was blue printed in Atlanta.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Let me also point out the Atlanta Student Movement, and the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights was located in Atlanta during the civil right movement. Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Atlanta Student Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because Atlanta's large number of HBCUs CORE and SNCC also had a large presence in Atlanta.
Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

The United States National Student Association locate there headquarters in Atlanta during the early 60s.
National Student Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Post civil rights movement era The carter center is in Atlanta.
The Carter Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Region IV Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the deep south, (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee) is located in Atlanta.
Office for Civil Rights - Headquarters and Regional Addresses

A nick name of Atlanta and how the city was promoted during the 60s was "the city too busy to hate" While there were conflicts in Atlanta before and during the civil rights movement, race riots and the race wall. Atlanta's "piviotal" role during the movement and what the city is noted for being the unofficial headquarters of the movement, Check out ebenezer baptist church, AUC, Paschal and etc. As opposed to Birmingham which is seem more of a battle field city, The Birmingham campaign.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Ray7000

With all respect, I follow history (especially southern) very well. So, can you please specify what piviotal role that Atlanta played in the Civil Rights Movement?

I agree that Atlanta was not ground zero for the civil rights movement, and (fortunately) it was not in the headlines like Alabama or Mississippi. There was certainly conflict here, but Atlanta brought a little more sophistication to the table than some of the rabid Deep South areas. Business and civic leaders liked to claim Atlanta was "the city too busy to hate" (translation: "Please move your business here." While that wasn't exactly the case, whites and blacks did for the most part proceed under a process of gradual accommodation.

Whether that would be deemed "pivotal" is subjective, but it's hardly as if Atlanta was out of the loop.

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by brent6969

Are you kidding????

Yeh...he went there!!LOL

[afonega1]

Originally Posted by BobKovacs

I like the way they decided that they'd build it in stages before they confirmed with the designers that it can be built in stages. From what I recall of the renderings and layouts that I saw, the project doesn't really lend itself well to staged construction, unless they plan to construct the whole shell, and only fitout part of the interior.....

I was thinking the same thing.