Amistad
Photo - Amistad (above)

                      Middle Passage (below)
Miafa
GALLERY B  
Replica of the Yates & Milton Drug Store
Replica Yates & Milton drugstore
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.
Established in
1923, by Clayton
R. Yates & Lorimer
D. Milton,
the store was one
of Atlanta's first
Black owned
businesses.  
Photo - Yates & Milton
Drugstore
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.
BellSouth Hall of Achievement
Photo – APEX Hall of Achievement
CURRENT   ●   T.E.A.M.
The APEX Museum
                                                               Where Every Month is Black History Month®
APEX facade
"...AND Still I Rise"
EXHIBITIONS
Celebrating 30 Years   1978-2008

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.
GALLERY D
"Black Inventors"
Photo Credits: Africa - National Geographic     Dr. Asa Grant Hilliard, III - AJC