Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park

Atlanta, Georgia

Birth home and final resting place of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park honors the life of our nation’s most important civil rights leader.  Visitors come to hear his story, visit his home of birth, and see the church where he moved hearts and minds.  Born on January 15, 1929, at the home of his maternal grandparents on Auburn Avenue, King spent his first twelve years here living with his grandparents, parents, and siblings.

Once ordained, Dr. King, Jr. served with his father at Ebeneezer Baptist Church.  In 1954, he began his first fulltime pastorship at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama where he laid the early groundwork for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).  Today, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home, church and grave site comprise this National Historic Site.

Also here is the Sweet Auburn Historic District, a historic Black commercial area.  All of these properties and places are important in understanding both the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement.  To learn more about Atlanta’s Black history, click here.

The tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King.