Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birth Home Is Among Relics of Auburn Avenue

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Segregation in Action

Auburn Avenue resident Charlie Mitchell, 73, stands outside the Butler Street YMCA, used in 1948 for Atlanta's first Black police officers to change into their uniforms as they weren't allowed to use the police station. (Photo: AP Photo/David Goldman)

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