Martin Luther King’s Last Home-Atlanta, Georgia

Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King moved into this home on Sunset Avenue in 1965. The home was built in 1933 in a racially mixed neighborhood. As whites began to leave the neighborhood, many prominent Black Atlantans like Alonzo Herndon and Julian Bond called Vine City home.

Mrs. King continued to live in the home until 2004. It was here where she founded the King Center. The King family continued to own the home until the property was purchased by the National Park Service in 2019. It will eventually be opened as a house museum like his birth home.

The swing set is one of the many original items left on the property.

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