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The home in Atlanta neighborhood known as Vine City where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. raised his family with Coretta Scott King is now open to the public for the first time.

MLK’s Vine City home is being made accessible to as part of Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, a part of the National Park System.

MLK’s Vine City home is now a National HIstorical Park site

The National Park Foundation purchased the home, via private philanthropy, from the estate of Coretta Scott King on January 8, 2019, and immediately transferred it to the National Park Service

Everybody is well aware of MLK’s birth home at 501 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30312, which has been a part of the National Park Service for years, but few know about MLK’s Vine City home where the adult minister and civil rights leader raised his children along with his faithful wife Coretta Scott King.

“The National Park Service’s dedication to preserving historic properties is unmatched,” said Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., on behalf of the King family. “We are very pleased to have worked with the National Park Foundation to ensure that the family home that my siblings and I grew up in will be open and available to the public. My brothers and I are honored to have fulfilled my mother’s wish to allow future generations to know the story of our dad as a father, a husband, a minister, and a civil rights leader.”

“The addition of the homes where Dr. King was born and where he raised his family with Coretta Scott King provides the National Park Service sacred spaces to more fully tell the story of Dr. King’s life and legacy,” said National Park Service Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith. “Thanks to the efforts of the National Park Foundation and the generosity of the King family, these areas are now among the many civil rights sites that are preserved as part of the National Park System and will be accessible to the American people in perpetuity.”