1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Walking Tour
by WABE · Atlanta · 6 stations · 17:48 min · 918 m · Walk
1. Atlanta and the New South
2:45 min · Cliff Kuhn introduces himself and explains Downtown Atlanta's role in the New South. Five Points was the heart of Atlanta in 1906 and the site of a...
62 m
2. 66 Peachtree Street - Alonzo Herndon's Crystal Palace
3:31 min · Alonzo Herndon, Atlanta's first Black millionaire, sensing there would be trouble in the area, closed up his incredibly successful luxury barber sh...
234 m
3. Decatur Street and Pryor Street - Kimball House Hotel
1:56 min · The site of the former grand Kimball House Hotel. A growing mob of nearly 5,000 white men gathered in this area after work, incensed by evening new...
159 m
4. Decatur Street and Central Ave/Peachtree Center
2:27 min · At this corner, Mayor James G. Woodward implored the mob to break up. His pleas were ignored. Firefighters also tried to disperse the mob with hose...
287 m
5. Five Points Street Cars
2:40 min · The mob targeted the streetcars coming through Five Points. Kuhn believes this was no coincidence as it was one of the major integrated services in...
176 m
6. Henry W. Grady Statue
4:29 min · A gruesome stopping point on the walking tour, victim's bodies were brought by the mob to the base of the Henry W. Grady statue. Kuhn theorizes tha...
1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Walking Tour
In 2006, WABE took a walking tour with the late, great historian and Georgia State University professor Cliff Kuhn, stopping at some of the most pivotal locations during the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.
by WABE
created on 9/22/23
created on 9/22/23
1. Atlanta and the New South
Cliff Kuhn introduces himself and explains Downtown Atlanta's role in the New South. Five Points was the heart of Atlanta in 1906 and the site of a...
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