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Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church

TIME : 2016/2/18 11:53:07

Formerly known as Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, here a 26-year-old Atlanta minister began his long march toward freedom. Built in 1885, Martin Luther King was the minister here (he planned the Montgomery bus boycott from his office) from 1954 to 1960. The nearby Dexter Parsonage Museum , is the humble house where King lived with his family. It was bombed in 1956.

One-hour tours must be booked in advance.