The Auburn Avenue African American Comprehensive Journey is designed to provide guests with an encompassing view of African American life and traditions in Atlanta, starting from the Emancipation Day/Juneteenth of 1865 to the era of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta in 1965. The tour places substantial emphasis on the Rosenwald educational infrastructure for African American students in Atlanta as well as Booker T Washington, recognized as the eminent African American educator. Explore the connection between Alonzo Herndon, George Washington Carver, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. Visitors will explore Atlanta’s historic African American universities and colleges (HBCUs), the first high school for African Americans in Georgia, and America’s first city park for black citizens. The Booker T Washington High School, the first school for African American students in Georgia and in the Atlanta Public School System, is also on the tour. Discover how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s grandfather rallied the community to establish a public high school for African American students in Atlanta. This is also the very school where Dr. Martin Luther King was educated.