Center for Civil and Human Rights

Introduction

The Center for Civil and Human Rights opened in 2014 beside Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, a modern museum that links the American civil rights movement to global human rights issues. The curved facade by architect Phil Freelon symbolizes flowing progress. Three core galleries cover the American civil rights movement, global human rights today, and the power of individual action. The most powerful gallery recreates 1950s and 1960s segregation, lunch-counter sit-ins, and the March on Washington; visitors sit at a restored counter, don headphones, and endure the recorded abuse and shoving that protesters once faced. A Martin Luther King Jr. papers exhibit and a rotating Human Rights Roll invite each visitor to reflect on their own place in history. It is a museum that breaks the heart and fills it with resolve.

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