International Academy of African Business & Development
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- Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District
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- Dr. King’s grave site and the King Center
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- COST PER PERSON: $26.00 LUNCH
International Academy of African Business & Development ~Half Day Tours~ Atlanta’s Heroes Robert Woodruff, Hank Aaron, Andrew Young, Billy Payne, Deborah Norville, Phil Niekro and the illustrious Ted Turner are all Atlantans of whom we are proud. Today, we will be focusing on three important heroes who have helped shape not only Atlanta…but the world!…President Jimmy Carter, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ms. Margaret Mitchell. We will travel down Auburn Avenue, and proceed to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District where Dr. King was born, grew up, preached and was buried. We will stop at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change where his grave site is located. From there, you can walk past the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr., served as co-pastor from 1960 until 1968. The tour continues to the Birth Home of Martin Luther King, Jr., a nine-room, two-story Queen Anne style residence that has been restored to its original appearance. This area, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Atlanta, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. We will visit the Carter Presidential Center, home of the Carter Presidential Library. Here 70,000 square feet of manuscripts, photographs and folk art can be seen. The most popular display is a simulated town meeting hall in which visitors can touch a computer monitor to choose one of more than 100 questions to be posed to Mr. Carter. His life size image, standing behind a podium, appears on a screen to answer questions, ranging from why he chose to go to Camp David with Sadat and Begin, to the Iranian Hostage crisis, to daily life in the White House. We will visit The Margaret Mitchell House. It was built as a single-family home in 1899 on fashionable Peachtree Street…in a neighborhood known as the “tight squeeze.” In 1919, the house was converted into a 10-unit apartment building and it is here, from 1925 until 1932, that Margaret Mitchell lived and wrote the most popular novel of all time. Margaret’s affectionate nickname for her apartment was “the Dump.” It was also during this time - the roaring 20’s and 30’s - that Mitchell’s apartment became an enclave for bohemian Atlanta and a central meeting place for aspiring writers and journalists. A former journalist herself, Mitchell crafted the story of Gone With the Wind amidst this rich period of Atlanta history. SPECIFICATIONS...
*Note: Admissions, insurance, all taxes and gratuities, and supervision provided by Presenting Atlanta. Quoted costs and tour offerings are subject to change and availability. African American Heritage
*Note: Admissions, insurance, all taxes and gratuities, and supervision provided by Presenting Atlanta . Quoted costs and tour offerings are subject to change and availability. CNN Center…Behind the Scenes! Let the adventures begin with a drive through downtown Atlanta, a maze of streets lined with soaring, modern towers punctuated by older, more human-scale buildings providing a link to the city’s past. At Five Points, Atlanta is business, hustle and bustle, while a stone’s throw away in Woodruff Park, a woman relaxes in the sun. The architecture, history, and people combine to create the allure of downtown Atlanta...the “sweetest part of the peach”. This driving tour then continues to the city’s heart, Centennial Olympic Park, which stands as a beautiful reminder of the largest sporting event in history, the Centennial Olympic Games. Our tour will include a bird’s eye view of the Olympic Stadium which hosted the spectacular Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and is now the home of the Braves and renamed Turner Field. Olympic celebration gifts of outdoor art from countries such as Spain, Greece and England, can be seen throughout the tour. CNN Center...Atlanta’s hottest news story! You will experience the electricity and excitement of a news service in action during your tour of Turner Broadcasting’s headquarters of CNN and HEADLINE NEWS, the two 24 hour all-news networks that have revolutionized television journalism. You will get a first-hand look at news-in -the-making; witness the state-of-the-art technology it takes to operate two major television networks; watch technicians, writers, editors, producers and on-air journalists pool their talents to produce round-the-clock live news coverage every day. 
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*Note: Insurance, all taxes and gratuities, and supervision provided by Presenting Atlanta. Quoted costs and tour offerings are subject to change and availability.
Everyone enjoys a few hours of leisure shopping while they are out of town and Atlanta has some of the best to offer. Phipps Plaza, nestled in the heart of Atlanta’s prestigious Buckhead district, combines the gracious hospitality of the Old South with the energetic style of one of the nation’s most dynamic cities, creating an unrivaled shopping experience. Shop fine department stores such as Lord & Taylor, Atlanta’s largest Parisian, and Atlanta’s only Saks Fifth Avenue. Experience the Southeast’s only NikeTown. Indulge yourself in the area's most fantastic collection of the world’s premier retailers, such as Gianni Versace, Tiffany & Co., Gucci and A/X Armani Exchange. Over 100 unique shops are elegantly presented in an environment sculpted in marble, brass and fine woodwork, and bathed in sunlight. Phipps Plaza has five full-service restaurants with distinctly different menus and surroundings. Across the street, one of the hottest shopping destinations in the Southeast, Lenox Square Mall has an exciting present and links to fascinating events in Atlanta's past. It features hundreds of upscale, glitzy shops, anchored by Neiman Marcus, Macy's and Rich's. Shoppers will also enjoy perusing shops such as Crate and Barrel, Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma. When your hands are full…you will be picked up at the same spot and returned to your hotel. 
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