Atlanta Street
fair draws
200,000
on opening day
By Anne Rochell
STAFF WRITER
Downtown
Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Festival is a street fair with a message.
On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X T-Shirts, an in the
reggae and rap music that is heard from dozens of sound systems
along Auburn Avenue on Saturday was about pride in the
African-American heritage.
And many among the 200,000 people in attendance were buying the
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The Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival is held on
Atlanta's most historic street in the Martin Luther King
/ Sweet Auburn Historic District. In 1956 Future
magazine called it the richest "Negro" street in the
world. Today Auburn Avenue is making a dynamic
comeback. Come and experience the Sweet Auburn
Renaissance
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