Source: Pullen Library, Georgia State University Drawing nearly a half a million people to Atlanta’s Martin Luther King/Sweet Auburn Historical District over three days each year in May, the 27th Annual Sweet Auburn Springfest officially kicks off Atlanta’s big summer festival season. Local business leaders, entertainers, artists, civil rights advocates and community activists are set to [...]
Sweet Auburn Curb Market, Atlanta GA
Photo Courtesy of Sweet Auburn Curb Market The Sweet Auburn Curb Market was originally established in 1918 on land cleared by the Great Atlanta fire of 1917. The market, set up in a huge tent, was an immediate success, bringing urban consumers direct access to farmers and their products. Wishing to give the curb market [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, Atlanta GA
Born January 15, 1929, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent the first 12 years of his life in this modest Queen Anne-style home located in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta. Furnished with both original or period reproduction pieces, as well as personal items of the family, the house has been restored to its appearance [...]
Sweet Auburn Bread Company | Atlanta, GA
Located in the heart of Atlanta’s historic Auburn Avenue, Sonja Jones’s Sweet Auburn Bread Company is a small batch from scratch bakery serving homey, southern-inspired desserts, breads and pastries. Home of the Sweet Potato Cheesecake … fit for a President. We love the German Chocolate and Red Velet cake too! If you can’t make the trip to [...]
Atlanta Life Insurance Co. Building | Atlanta, GA
Established 1905 by Alonzo Herndon, a prosperous black barber and entrepreneur who rose from slavery to become the wealthiest African American in Atlanta, the Atlanta Life Company was one of three financial institutions, all headquartered in the Sweet Auburn district, that served the black middle class in Atlanta before the civil rights movement. As one [...]
Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival | Atlanta, GA
Founded by civil rights leader Hosea Williams in 1984, the annual Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival celebrates the history of Auburn Avenue Historical District (formerly known as Wheat Street), home to Atlanta’s first emerging African American middle class community. This year’s festival featuress live entertainment on 3 stages, cultural arts, multi-cultural foods, apparel, games, exhibits, special [...]
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