Monday will make its way to thousands of Auburn Street, east of downtown Atlanta, to testify in the basement of King outdoors, and a tour of his birth. They crowd in the history of the civil rights of the Office of Fort screen and accurately maintain the old Ebenezer Baptist Church, on the street, where King preached the peaceful revolution and conspiracy.
Fort, and there will be dozens of guards and volunteers directly, while the frets on the security and crowd control and fire codes. Working with them, by custom, and discuss the history of the movement of visitors according to their age and their relation to the fatal events.
House to tell them to wait three categories of tourists.
There is a generation of people like her who have directly benefited from the work of the foot soldiers of civil rights.
There are foot soldiers themselves - and people like her late father, Jamie Lee Goodwin, Alabama, a factory worker who joined the king in the final stage of the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. It recommends, which is one of the visitors who listens, not lectures.
Then there is the smallest. "There is a generation of children who only know Dr. King, a historical figure, or a coloring book," he said. "For them it is not true."
Can you remember the mysterious home of one week in April 1968 when King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (11) and used to attend an integrated school recently in Phoenix, Alabama, and the mood in the school of its kind in the school, and boil usually with racial tension, and it was a sad relationship. Among African-American colleague, the impact is more pronounced.
"The community was crying," he said.
Tuskegee University, the historically black school, east of Montgomery, was recruited by the strength of the National Parks is trying to diversify its workforce. His first assignment at the end of 1970, and was in the garden of Appomattox Court House National Historic Landmark in the state of Virginia, the site of the surrender of the Confederacy, General Robert E. Lee 's in 1865.
And visitors, and most were white, in part, to a lost cause. He was one of the black and some other staff in a series of historical reenactor who played the role of slaves. On many occasions, and said, someone surreptitiously cut the American flag over the cemetery, and replace it with another confederation.
One day, when she took a tour of the house McLean site - give up some of the meetings - a man asked if he should be the slave quarters.
She smiled. "Not yet."
House to follow the profession of Zoo Keeper, with associated road construction, fire fighting, the role of pressure, and even land at the end of the day here in Atlanta, in the old Ebenezer, where King wept after the shooting.
The building, and Fort know, has to do with the legacy of King. However, in the way we have a legacy.
In 1999, he moved the group from Ebenezer Baptist Church, and the discomfort of the structure of a small and simple, the hall of worship of the largest and most modern in the street. Park Service began to leave the old church is open for tourists. Piping recordings of King's speeches to supplement the hauntingly, and in view of the platform is empty.
A year later he became head of the fortress, closed the old church, the park service began to return to the appearance of the 1960 - your time. This process, which oversaw the Fort, architects and historians concerned and contractors, lawyers, church elders and members of the family of the king. They are concerned about the smallest details, even the shadow of the mortar between the bricks.
Last Wednesday, and was walking down the street from Fort Auburn to show improvements. A former college runner, she moves to the situation of perfect straight cut and a leading figure in the uniform of a wide-brimmed hat and olive for the caregiver.
Also approached the sanctuary, the hat, revealing a church ready hair and a pair of gold earrings minutes.
The observed changes and subtle: the restoration of the walls of pale salmon, historically accurate. Remove pillows Pew added after 1968. Repair roof leaks and sagging porch. It was the closest I will always be in the way they were.
The restoration of the building open to the public in April. Attended the parents' home in the dedication ceremony. Under the control of your computer, keeps a picture of three of them on that day, standing before the old building. His father is equipped with an oxygen tank. He died after five months.
"Judy was proud of," Deputy Superintendent. Stennis said Anthony. "You could see on his face."
On Monday, the task of restoring Fort expected to be the largest public display yet. The foot soldiers of the old, now there's a lift - ahistorical, perhaps, but necessary.
For children, and the king's voice registered outside the ring through the chambers - fill, perhaps, the lines in coloring book pages.
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