ATLANTA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Atlanta officials are thinking about adding a museum on the civil rights movement to its tourist mix.
About 150 leaders attended an invitation-only meeting to discuss the project earlier this month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
"We were really just trying to get a sense of whether this was something people would be interested in," Mayor Shirley Franklin told the newspaper this week. "And there was a lot of interest."
Franklin said that former Mayor Andrew Young would be the logical choice to lead the effort. Young, who also served as ambassador to the United Nations, was one of Martin Luther King's chief lieutenants.
Atlanta, King's birthplace and the site of his grave, already draws people interested in the civil rights movement. One possible site for a museum is the King Historic District.
