Excerpt from General Management Plan, Development Concept Plan: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and Preservation District, Atlanta
Management of this park complex will be a cooperative undertaking by the National Park Service, the city of Atlanta, and numerous local agencies and organizations. The primary responsibilities of the National Park Service will be historic preservation and interpretation of Dr. King’s life. This general management plan primarily addresses resource management, public use, and development within the national historic site. The preservation district will be managed according to a separate development program that has been prepared by the park’s advisory commission with the help of the city of Atlanta. One purpose of the development program has been to identify ways to integrate the park with the surrounding area and to capitalize on the presence of the park as a focus of economic revitalization. The National Park Service has worked cooperatively with the advisory commission and the city of Atlanta to ensure compatibility between the general management plan and the development program.
The interpretive programs included in this plan center around the structures most directly associated with Dr. King: his birthplace, the residences on the same block, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and his memorial gravesite. The National Park Service will operate an information kiosk and conduct walking tours of the national historic site. Exhibits, publications, and historic buildings will be used to interpret the life and work of Dr. King and the larger story of the civil rights movement. The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center), which carries on the work of Dr. King, will continue to memorialize him and explain his philosophies and legacy to visitors. The National Park Service will not establish a major visitor center in the national historic site.
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