Photo - Amistad (above)
Middle Passage (below)
Middle Passage (below)
| GALLERY B |
| Replica of the Yates & Milton Drug Store |
When viewing the
exhibit one can see,
paddle bats, hair nets
and items once used in
that era. Viewers have
reminisced on days
gone by and reflected
on the
ownership of Black
business during
segregation.
exhibit one can see,
paddle bats, hair nets
and items once used in
that era. Viewers have
reminisced on days
gone by and reflected
on the
ownership of Black
business during
segregation.
Established in 1923,
by Clayton R. Yates
& Lorimer D. Milton,
the store was one
of Atlanta's first
Black owned
businesses.
by Clayton R. Yates
& Lorimer D. Milton,
the store was one
of Atlanta's first
Black owned
businesses.
| Yates & Milton Drugstore Exhibit |
| GALLERY C |
| "Hall of Achievement" |
"Hall of Achievement"
features various exhibits,
art and interactive
programs.
Bellsouth Black History
Calendars: An exhibition
based on the honoring the
accomplishments of
African Americans in the
metropolitan Atlanta area.
features various exhibits,
art and interactive
programs.
Bellsouth Black History
Calendars: An exhibition
based on the honoring the
accomplishments of
African Americans in the
metropolitan Atlanta area.
| Photo – APEX Hall of Achievement |
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| "...AND Still I Rise" |
| EXHIBITIONS |
| Established 1978 |
Dedicated to the indelible memory of Professor Asa G. Hilliard, III |
| January - August, 2008 |
This exhibit augments the
APEX Museum's film "The
Journey". The area features
artifacts of slavery; chains,
and documents. You are taken
on a Journey through a period
known for the worst slavery
ever perpetrated on mankind.
This section puts great
emphasis on the resistance of
a people that triumphed
through insurmountable odds.
*Maafa is a Kiswahili word used
to describe real calamity,
catstrophe, tradegy or
disaster. Dr. Marimba Ani
introduced it into
contemporary
African-American scholarship
as a preferred reference to the
period in world history,
identified as the Middle
Passage or TransAtlantic Slave
Trade.
APEX Museum's film "The
Journey". The area features
artifacts of slavery; chains,
and documents. You are taken
on a Journey through a period
known for the worst slavery
ever perpetrated on mankind.
This section puts great
emphasis on the resistance of
a people that triumphed
through insurmountable odds.
*Maafa is a Kiswahili word used
to describe real calamity,
catstrophe, tradegy or
disaster. Dr. Marimba Ani
introduced it into
contemporary
African-American scholarship
as a preferred reference to the
period in world history,
identified as the Middle
Passage or TransAtlantic Slave
Trade.
| GALLERY D |
| "Black Inventors" |
