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COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KING ASSASINATION

ATLANTA:

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: 450 Auburn Ave., NE, or 404-331-5190. "From Memphis to Atlanta: The Drum Major Returns Home," opens April 4, showing photos taken April 3-9, 1968, in the last hours of King's life and days leading up to his funeral. King's funeral wagon and artifacts from Coretta Scott King collection will be on display. The historic site includes King's birth home, gravesite and visitor's center. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: 830 Westview Drive, S.W.,  or 404-681-2800. (Morehouse is King's alma mater.)

Screening and discussion of The History Channel's "King," April 3, 7:15 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel (on the Morehouse campus). Featuring Tom Brokaw, Martin Luther King III '79 and Morehouse College President Robert M. Franklin.

"Renaissance Processional on Equality," April 4. Morehouse students plan to march from Ebenezer Baptist Church to the college to commemorate the assassination and support the vision of King's "Poor People's Campaign of 1968."

AUBURN AVENUE RESEARCH LIBRARY: 101 Auburn Ave. SE, or 404-730-4001, ext. 200. April 5, 1 p.m. Author talk and signing, "What Would Martin Say?" by Clarence B. Jones.

MARGARET MITCHELL HOUSE & MUSEUM: 990 Peachtree St. NE, or 404-249-7015. Exhibit of Bob Adelman's photographs, from the book "KING: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr."

HIGH MUSEUM OF ART: 1280 Peachtree St., NE,  or 404-733-4444. The museum is now previewing some images from an exhibit that opens June 7, called "Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968." The full show of 130 photographs dating from the Rosa Parks case to King's assassination will open at the same time as an art show, "After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy." Both exhibitions on view through Oct. 5.

ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER: 130 W. Paces Ferry Road NW,  or 404-814-4000. "Courage: The Vision To End Segregation, The Guts to Fight for It," an exhibit about Brown v. Board of Education, on display through June 22.

DRUM MAJOR FOR JUSTICE AWARDS DINNER: April 4, 7 p.m., at Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, 165 Courtland St. Sponsored by Southern Christian Leadership Council Women's Organizational Movement for Equality Now Inc.,  or 404-584-0303. Tickets, $75

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