Wolfe, a Tony Award-winning playwright and director, best-known for directing “Bring in ‘da Noise/Bring in ‘da Funk” and “Angels in America - Millennium Approaches.” This is his first museum - not including the fictional attraction in his 1986 play “The Colored Museum.” As might be expected, he has created a theatrical experience. Rolls Down Like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement Instead, it is what Mandel calls “experiential.”
Outside of the King collection, the center is not a repository of artifacts. (Less for “streakers,” more for “scholars.”) All tours are self-guided and will take visitors to any or all of three galleries. In comparison to these lighthearted attractions, the downtown facility offers more serious fare: scholarship, a walk through history and some consciousness-raising.Įxhibitions director David Mandel said the average visitor - the “stroller” - will spend 75 minutes at the center. Its immediate neighbors in the Pemberton Place tourist mecca are the World of Coke and the Georgia Aquarium nearby are Centennial Olympic Park and the CNN Center. The NCCHR is housed downtown in an elegantly curved structure with a moss lawn for a roof. On Monday, June 23, 2014, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights opened its doors, offering visitors a history of the freedom movement in this country (told from Atlanta’s perspective) and an accounting of the modern human rights activism that civil rights pioneers inspired. Information: 67, Atlanta, the cradle of the civil rights movement, finally has a museum that tells its story. The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. John Lewis by folk artist Benny Andrews “Without Sanctuary,” disturbing images of lynchings in America (many of them on postcards) collected by James Allen.
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Permanent collections: In addition to exhibition rights for the King papers (the papers are actually owned by Morehouse College), the center has seven portraits of human rights “heroes” by Atlanta painter Ross Rossin a series of paintings of U.S.