Apex Museum
Recreated nineteen-twenties Black-owned drugstore counter inside a museum devoted to African American history and culture.
This guide to the Apex Museum in Atlanta centers on a full-size recreation of Yates and Milton Drug Store, the marble soda-fountain counter Clayton Yates and Lorimer Milton took over on Auburn Avenue in nineteen twenty-two, decades after Moses Amos became Georgia's first licensed Black pharmacist there. It follows what the store meant on a street Fortune magazine once called the richest Negro street in the world, a place where deals got made and a Black customer could sit at the counter without a second thought under Jim Crow. It also traces the museum itself, founded in nineteen seventy-eight by filmmaker Dan Moore Senior inside a century-old former book depository. Stand at that counter and picture a young Martin Luther King Junior walking past this same window on his way down Auburn Avenue.
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