Legacy Heritage Tours promise student groups plotting their Peach State excursion important insight into Atlanta’s rich African American heritage while highlighting black life and achievement in the city from pre-Civil War to the present. We are all acquainted with the stories of prominent African-Americans: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson and Hank Aaron – the list goes on – and Legacy Tours squire you around “their” Atlanta. Take your seat in climate-controlled comfort as you and your travel companions explore wonderful historic landmarks; you’ll cruise historic Auburn Avenue, once the “richest black street” in the world, and see Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth home, his tomb, the Civil Rights Museum and the Ebenezer Baptist Church – where he was baptized and which he co-pastored right alongside his father. Visit the educational complex housing Spelman College, Morehouse College, the Interdenominational Theological Center and other historically significant black institutions; tour the Alonzo Herndon House Museum, a stately Greek Revival-style mansion built in 1905 by Atlanta’s first black millionaire and hear the tale of his prodigious rise from a life of wretched slavery to a position of influence and astonishing wealth. The city of Atlanta is renowned for its lovely homes and beautiful, timeless landscapes; Heritage tours showcase its finest African-American neighborhoods and grand abodes, and outings may be customized to incorporate additional attractions like the wonderful Apex Museum, (standing for “African American Panoramic Experience) the Hammond House, the Wren’s Nest and the Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore.