Center for Civil and Human Rights

Dedicated to the civil rights movement in the United States and more broadly to the struggle for human rights across the world, the Center for Civil and Human Rights is a dynamic and powerful experience that brings visitors to face to face with one of the greatest social initiatives of recent history. The Civil Rights Movement gallery portrays the fight for equality in the 1950s and 1960s, immersing visitors in the sights and sounds through interactive displays that bring to life the individuals who worked to overcome the Jim Crow laws and secure equal rights for all.

The Freedom Riders exhibit recreates the 1950s bus, with oral histories and a film made inside the bus. The Lunch Counter exhibit is perhaps the most moving, as visitors sit at a replica counter encountering the angry faces and listening with earphones to the voices of tormentors, who threatened those who tried to eat at public lunch counters. Multimedia displays bring the March on Washington alive through songs and speeches. Martyrs who lost their lives in the struggle for equal rights are honored with their photos and stories. The Human Rights Movement gallery connects the struggles for human rights throughout the world, through interactive technology, exploring fundamental rights, and encouraging visitors to engage in the discussion.

Official site: www.civilandhumanrights.org/

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

Phone: 678-999-8990

Google rating: 4.8/5.0