Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction—including the area's history from its Native American inhabitants to the twentieth century

I. Brief Overview of Auburn Avenue History

II. Residential Area

535 Auburn Avenue—Charles Harper Home
Bryant Preparatory Academy
526 Auburn Avenue—Kirk House
522 Auburn Avenue—Bryant-Graves Home
514 Auburn Avenue—Shaw-Lisbon-Bradley Home
510 Auburn Avenue
509 Auburn Avenue
501 Auburn Avenue—Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home
497 Auburn Avenue
491-493 Auburn Avenue
Fire Station No. 6
Our Lady of Lourdes School and Church
Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Fire of 1917
Race Riot of 1906

III. Business Area

Cox Brothers Funeral Home
Haugabrooks Funeral Home
Wheat Street Baptist Church
Prince Hall Masonic Lodge/Southern Christian Leadership Council/WERD-FM
Carnegie Library, Auburn Avenue Branch
Elks Club
Soul Food Row, including Ma Suttons, Hawk's Dinette, and Others
Businesses Lost in Interstate 75/85 Construction
Odd Fellows Building
Herndon Building
Big Bethel AME Church
Butler Street YMCA
Walden Building
Lost Buildings, including Bronner Brothers and the Rucker Buildings
Citizen Trust
Mutual Federal Savings and Loan
Casino Club
Top Hat Club/Royal Peacock
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta Life Insurance Company
APEX Museum
Auburn Avenue Research Library

Acknowledgments

Index