Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Atlanta considers civil rights museum

|
|
 
  
Published: Dec. 24, 2005 at 1:59 PM

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.

Topics: Andrew Young, Martin Luther, Shirley Franklin
© 2005 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
I'll see your zombie apocalypse, and raise you "swarms of deadly spiders" invading a town in India...
Photoshop this woman at the wheel
New book is full of girls in their bedrooms, will be read by people who need to have a seat right...
★☆☆☆☆ Michigan is an uninhabitable swamp. Do not settle
As part of the Queen's jubilee celebrations, Top Gear presenter James May has built a contraption...
New, comprehensive data on all the reasons why people break-up. Bad news for Farkers: drinking too...