Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta's National Treasure

Once the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the globally significant birthplace of the civil rights movement; and it also lays in the wake of social, commercial, and urban challenges that have left some of its most important spaces and places in a state of peril—and even in danger of demolition—as Atlanta grows in, around, and over it.

Now, for t...