Martin Luther King, Jr., Birth Home: Historic Furnishings Report
Wallace DH. 1989. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birth Home: Historic Furnishings Report. Historic Furnishing Reports. Atlanta, Georgia
Since the Martin Luther King, Jr., Birth Home has already been partially restored and refurnished, it is important to summarize the available informatjon on the goals of that restorat.ion and the procedures followed by those who carried out the refurnishing. On August 17, 1971, Mrs, Alberta Williams King deeded to the Martin Luther King Memorial Center the house and lot, 501 Auburn Avenue, where her son, Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in 1929 and lived until 1941, when he was 12 years old:1 Under the auspices of the Center (now known as the MartinLuther King, Jr" Center for N on-Violent Social Change, Inc.), plans were dra wn up "to restore the building and furnish the rooms as they were during the time of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth and boyhood years.,,2 Mrs. Alberta Williams King and her daughter, Mrs. Christine King Farris, headed the restoration committee. The furnishings committee was chaired by Mrs. Nina King Miller, a close friend of the King family; the other members were Mrs. King, Mrs. Farris, and Mrs. India Crittenden, "a former neighbor and friend from the earlier days on Auburn Avenue . ..3
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wallace, David
- Date of Issue
- 1989-03
- Units
- HIST , MALU
- Keywords
- Administration, Administrative, Analysis, ehistory, evidence, furnishing, History, Maintenance, objectives, occupancy, operation, Plan, Preservation, Protection