The King Center

This guide to The King Center in Atlanta opens on the night of April fourth, nineteen sixty-eight, when Coretta Scott King learned her husband had been shot in Memphis, and follows her decision, within weeks, to turn a folding table in her basement into the start of a working headquarters rather than a quiet memorial. You'll hear how the site on Auburn Avenue grew around that plan, from the marble crypt and reflecting pool built years later to the eternal flame that has burned since that first year. It also traces how Coretta later brought President Carter and industrialist Henry Ford the second on board to fund Freedom Hall behind it.