Address
Gone With The Wind Museum 472 Powder Springs St SW, Marietta, GA 30064, United States
Business Hours
Tuesday - Saturday
10 a.m - 4 p.m
Sunday - Closed
Monday - Closed
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The museum celebrating the Margaret Mitchell novel & film, with costumes, rare prints & memorabilia.
Change in the Wind as told by Andrew Young.
It's the little known, true story of Margaret Mitchell and Benjamin E. Mays, two people who lived in the same place, at the same time... but in very different worlds.
The story is brought to life through the voice talent of a remarkable cast, led by Academy Award-winning actress Joanne Woodward, as Margaret Mitchell and David Oyelowo, as Benjamin Mays. Special narration by Cammie King.
She had written a Pulitzer-prizewinning novel criticized for perpetuating racial stereotypes. He was one of the fiercest enemies of racism and laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights movement in America.
Yet, for nearly a decade, the most famous author in the South corresponded -- secretly -- with the legendary president of Morehouse College... and eventually became one of the most important financial supporters of the traditionally black school.
Anonymously, Margaret Mitchell provided Dr. Benjamin E. Mays with funds to pay for the medical educations of dozens of promising African American men -- a story which slowly came to light decades later and was never fully been told -- until now.
While assisting Ambassador Young with "Change in the Wind," researchers at the University of Georgia (where Mitchell's papers are stored in a restricted collection) discovered previously unknown letters which fill in important gaps and explain the author's evolving view on racial disparity in Georgia and the South.
Address
Gone With The Wind Museum 472 Powder Springs St SW, Marietta, GA 30064, United States
Business Hours
Tuesday - Saturday
10 a.m - 4 p.m
Sunday - Closed
Monday - Closed
Check Holidays