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Inside the Georgia Tech Athletics building just off Techwood Drive, you’ll find pictures and memorabilia representing a multitude of Black student-athletes who rose to the pinnacle of their respective sports, including trailblazers Jan Hilliard and Eddie McAshan. Hilliard, a basketball player, was Tech’s first Black female student-athlete. McAshan was not only the first Black football player on scholarship for Georgia Tech, but he was also one of the first Black quarterbacks to play for a southern collegiate football program.
The Campus Recreation Center on Georgia Tech’s campus is a stunning architectural feat, and was designed by Tech’s first two Black architecture graduates. Bill Stanley, ARCH 1972, and his wife Ivenue Love-Stanley, ARCH 1977, led the design of the Aquatic Center used for the 1996 Summer Olympics. After the Games, the aquatic center was enclosed to be used for the campus community. At the time of construction, the upper-level basketball courts represented the world’s largest suspended concrete structure.
Near Campus
MLK Home and Historic Site
At 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, you can visit the house where Martin Luther King Jr. spent the first 12 years of his life. There, you can also learn about the legendary civil rights leader’s journey from a child in Jim Crow-era Atlanta to his position as co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church, his work on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the March on Washington — and all of his other achievements.
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights
This museum and cultural institution connects the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to human rights activism around the world. You can explore the stories of civil and human rights defenders who used their power as individuals and as a part of larger movements to bring about social change.
