SWEET AUBURN

This first walking tour along Auburn Avenue focuses on how early African American businesses, churches, and social and cultural organizations fought to ensure that there was social, cultural, and economic progress in the community and paved the way for current businesses and educational institutions to be successful. The tour also discusses how these organizations paved the way for current businesses and educational institutions to be successful.

Book One of Our Tours

For Group Tours, School Tours, and Private tours, please contact us at trevorpearson@hiddengemstours.net  or call us at (678) 491-8555. We will set up a time that works with your travel plans.

M CJ Walker - hidden Gems Tours

Places you will see on the Tour Route

Madam-C-J-Walker-Museum-and-wWERD-radio-station

WERD Radio

the first radio station in the United States owned and operated by Black Americans.

777-Tabor-Temple-building

Prince Hall Masonic Temple & Tabor Building

Atlanta businessman and civic leader, John Wesley Dobbs, spearheaded the construction of this building completed in 1937.

Auburn Avenue Research Library

The core collection of materials from Atlanta’s first public library branch for African Americans was transferred to this building in 1994.

Local Places to eat