Churches, Businesses and Block Memory
The places that made a neighborhood feel like home.
Old Atlanta Stories
Black businesses, churches, restaurants, media, and civic groups.
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On Auburn Avenue, a single building connected culture, enterprise and the civil-rights movement.
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Open topicPublic sourceNational Park Service: Prince Hall Masonic LodgeThe station upstairs, the movement downstairs
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