The tour - part 5

Atlanta is a city of history - of violence.

The old city was burned by General Sherman during the civil war.

In 1906 there was a mass civil disturbance referred to as the Atlanta Race Riot. It is estimated that there were between twenty-five to forty African American deaths. It was confirmed that there were only two white deaths.

Altanta is the birthplace and now the resting place of Martin Luther King, Jr, a man whose lived ended in a crescendo of violence.

Finally, in 1996, at Centennial Olympic Park, a bomb exploded, killing a woman.

By no means are these the only incidents of violence in Atlanta's or N.GA's history.

Let us rest again and consider where we have been.