The West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Northwest Atlanta, a site deeply rooted in the Civil Rights movement, may soon be designated as a National Historic Site.
Located on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the 119-year-old stone sanctuary played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.
“My father-in-law and mother-in-law, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy and Juanita Jones Abernathy, moved to Atlanta in 1961 by a request of the King family. Daddy King specifically wanted Martin to come back to Atlanta,” said Annette Abernathy…