Edward Rothstein travels to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Atlanta.
“There is something so intimate about the connection of Auburn Avenue with Dr. King and his movement that I feel grateful that its vantage point survives. It does largely because Coretta Scott King succeeded in preventing the demolition of her husband’s birth home and helped get the neighborhood named a historic district. Then, after founding the King Center, she lobbied for the creation of what in 1980 became the King National Historic Site and Preservation District, an amalgam of national park, shrine, museum, business-improvement district and historical village still being remodeled to reflect different periods of Dr. King’s life.” – from “In King’s Footsteps, Others Try to Dream,” by Edward Rothstein, New York Times