A Visit To Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Curb Market
It has operated as a municipal market in downtown Atlanta for more than 90 years. This week, the Farm Monitor visits the one of a kind Sweet Auburn Curb Market, where independent vendors sell a wide variety of fresh foods and other goods.
Atlanta: Sweet Auburn
The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, east of downtown Atlanta.
The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the richest Negro street in the world, one of the largest concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States. A National Historic Landmark District was designated in 1976, covering 19 acres (7.7 ha) of the neighborhood, significant for its history and development as a segregated area under the state's Jim Crow laws.
The first settlement here was on land formerly occupied by Union troops and was called Shermantown for many years.
The rise of Auburn Avenue as the black business district in Atlanta was to a great extent an outcome of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. Prior to this time black businesses operated largely in downtown Atlanta — a business district integrated as far as business ownership was concerned. But competition between working-class whites and blacks for jobs and housing gave rise to fears and tensions. In 1906, print media fueled these tensions with hearsay about alleged sexual assaults on white women by black men, triggering the riot, which left at least 27 people dead (25 of them black) and over 70 injured.
Black businesses started to move from previously integrated business district downtown to the relative safety of the area around the Atlanta University Center west of downtown, and to Auburn Avenue in the Fourth Ward east of downtown.
Sweet Auburn Avenue became home to Alonzo Herndon's Atlanta Mutual, the city's first black-owned life insurance company, and to a celebrated concentration of black businesses, newspapers, churches, and nightclubs. In 1956, Fortune magazine called Sweet Auburn the richest Negro street in the world, a phrase originally coined by civil rights leader John Wesley Dobbs from the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith.
Sweet Auburn and Atlanta's black colleges formed the nexus of a prosperous black middle class and upper class which arose despite enormous social and legal obstacles.
Sweet Auburn was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. However, like so many other inner-city neighborhoods, Sweet Auburn fell victim to lack of investment, heavy, widespread crime, homelessness, and abandonment, compounded by construction of the Downtown Connector freeway that split it in two.
In 1992 the National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized that it was one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places and, in 2005, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation included the area in its 2006 list of Places in Peril. The Historic District Development Corporation (HDDC) was formed to turn the trend around, starting with houses surrounding the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and working outward. In 2014, the city of Atlanta completed the installation of the Atlanta Streetcar, a line that creates a loop connecting the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site to downtown and the tourist attractions of Centennial Olympic Park. The streetcar travels east along Edgewood Avenue and west along Auburn Avenue.
Sweet Auburn
Part of A Walk Through Atlanta History found in the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Stroll along the famous Auburn Ave with Mr. Jackson and his fiancé.
Atlanta Life Insurance Company Annex Building - Sweet Auburn Historic District
Atlanta Life Insurance Company Annex Building - Sweet Auburn Historic District Atlanta, Georgia
Original owner/builder: Alonzo Herndon
Built: 1936
Architectural style: Neo-classical
Original Use: This structure, along with the main building, housed the Atlanta Life Insurance Company from 1936-1980.
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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park consists of several buildings in Atlanta, Georgia, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King was baptized and both his father Martin Luther King Sr. and he were pastors. These places, critical to the interpretation of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, were included in the park when it was established on October 10, 1980. Formerly a National Historic Site, the unit was redesignated as a National Historical Park on January 8, 2018. In total, the buildings included in the site make up 35 acres (0.14 km²). The visitor center contains a museum that chronicles the American Civil Rights Movement and the path of Martin Luther King Jr. An 1894 firehouse (Fire Station No. 6) served the Sweet Auburn community until 1991, and now contains a gift shop and an exhibit on desegregation in the Atlanta Fire Department. The I Have a Dream International World Peace Rose Garden, and a memorial tribute to Mohandas K. Gandhi are part of the site, as is the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame which commemorates some of the courageous pioneers who worked for social justice. Annual events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January typically draw large crowds. Speakers have included Presidents of the United States, national and local politicians, and civil rights leaders. Remembrances are also held during Black History Month (February), and on the anniversary of King's April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sweet Auburn Avenue
During segregation in the United States, Auburn Avenue in Downtown Atlanta was once considered one of the richest African American streets in the world. The Atlanta Daily World was one of the most successful businesses thriving in the vicinity until a tornado demolished the building in 2008.
The Atlanta Daily World relocated since then and is still operating today out of Roswell. It is Atlanta's longest-running newspaper and was the first successful African American-owned daily newspaper in the United States.
The Atlanta Daily World founder's granddaughter, Alexis Scott, sat down with reporter Amber Spradley to discuss her pastime with the newspaper. After serving as publisher for 16 years, she is now retired and appears on FOX 5 Atlanta every Sunday as a featured commentator on The Georgia Gang.
You can browse through The Atlanta Daily World's latest stories at atlantadailyworld.com.
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Time lapse view from the Westin Peachtree Plaza downtown Atlanta
Atlanta Streetcar First Day Pull Off From Sweet Auburn Market
December 30 2014 S70 Streetcar.
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Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park consists of several buildings in Atlanta, Georgia, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King was baptized and both his father Martin Luther King Sr. and he were pastors. These places, critical to the interpretation of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, were included in the park when it was established on October 10, 1980. Formerly a National Historic Site, the unit was redesignated as a National Historical Park on January 8, 2018. In total, the buildings included in the site make up 35 acres (0.14 km²). The visitor center contains a museum that chronicles the American Civil Rights Movement and the path of Martin Luther King Jr. An 1894 firehouse (Fire Station No. 6) served the Sweet Auburn community until 1991, and now contains a gift shop and an exhibit on desegregation in the Atlanta Fire Department. The I Have a Dream International World Peace Rose Garden, and a memorial tribute to Mohandas K. Gandhi are part of the site, as is the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame which commemorates some of the courageous pioneers who worked for social justice. Annual events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January typically draw large crowds. Speakers have included Presidents of the United States, national and local politicians, and civil rights leaders. Remembrances are also held during Black History Month (February), and on the anniversary of King's April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
Marietta suburb to Midtown Atlanta
Driving from Marietta, Georgia to midtown Atlanta, on Johnson Ferry Road, Roswell Road, I-75, I-85, arriving at Sweetwater Brewing Company.
Atlanta: Martin Luther King Birth Home
The Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home is located at 501 Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district. Built in 1895, it sits about a block east of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
King's maternal grandparents, Reverend Adam Daniel (A.D.) Williams, who was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and his wife, Jennie Williams, bought the house for $3,500 in 1909. In 1926, when King's father married Alberta Williams, the couple moved into the house, where King Jr. was born in 1929.
The King family lived in the house until 1941. It was then converted into a two-family dwelling. The Rev. A. D. Williams King, Dr. King's brother, lived on the second floor in the 1950s and early 1960s.
The first level includes the front porch, parlor, study, dining room, kitchen, laundry, bedroom and a bathroom. The second level includes four bedrooms and a bathroom. The visitor center offers free tours of the house led by National Park Service rangers, but with limited availability.
The tour is free and lasts approximately 30 minutes from 10:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Tours are limited to 15 people, on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the tour.
Georgia - Atlanta - Auburn Ave - Travel Doc
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with more than 300 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries.
Auburn Avenue, Atlanta -Sweet Mangos Caribbean Restaurant
Street music playing over loudspeaker from Mangos Caribbean Music on Auburn Avenue, Atlanta.
Luther King Jr Historic Site, Atlanta, Usa
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2016 Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Interview Sweet Auburn District, Atlanta
Small Town Deep South - Driving through Dublin, Georgia, USA
Exiting Interstate 16 and driving through the small town of Dublin, GA. Taking route 19 north and US441 north. On this part of the roadtrip we were traveling from Savannah to Atlanta, and we took a slight detour on 441 to McIntyre to see some of the Georgia countryside
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AmericanWill performing at Auburn Ave Festival In Atlanta
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CNN Studio Tour In Atlanta
CNN Studio Tour In Atlanta.
Today I went on the CNN studio tour with an old friend I met during my term in the US Army.
The experience was cool, and I think more people should check it out. If you ever visit Atlanta, GA, and you're into news/politics, you will enjoy the tour.
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