National Center for Civil and Human Rights

This guide to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta starts at a lunch counter simulation timed to eighty-five seconds, the exact length four Black students sat through insults and shoves at a Greensboro Woolworth's in February nineteen sixty, asking simply to be served coffee. You'll hear how they trained beforehand in nonviolent resistance and meant to stay far longer than eighty-five seconds, and how the center built its flagship gallery around a stool salvaged from that same counter. It also touches on the drafts of King's Letter from Birmingham Jail on display down the hall, a short walk from the street where he grew up.