Center for Civil and Human Rights

The Center for Civil and Human Rights is a dynamic and powerful experience that brings visitors face to face with one of the greatest social initiatives in recent history. It is dedicated to the civil rights movement in the United States and, more broadly, the struggle for human rights around the world. The Civil Rights Movement gallery depicts the fight for equality in the 1950s and 1960s, immersing visitors in the sights and sounds of the era with interactive displays that bring to life the people who worked to abolish Jim Crow laws and ensure equal rights for everyone.

With oral narratives and a film shot inside the bus, the Freedom Riders exhibit recreates the 1950s bus. Visitors sit at a replica counter, encountering furious faces and listening to voices of tormentors who threatened people who tried to eat at public lunch counters, in the Lunch Counter exhibit, which is possibly the most moving. Through music and speeches, multimedia displays bring the March on Washington to life.

Photos and stories of martyrs who gave their lives in the fight for equal rights are displayed. Through interactive technology, the Human Rights Movement gallery connects the struggles for human rights around the world, exploring fundamental rights and enabling visitors to participate in the discussion.

Address: 100 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW, Atlanta, Georgia