Georgia Tech Dedicates Plaza At Site Where Black Students Were Once Chased From Cafeteria

Shelbe Johnson and Kemuel Russell, members of Georgia Tech’s African-American Student Union speak during the dedication of a new plaza on campus Wednesday.

Emil Moffatt/WABE News

Georgia Tech has redesigned part of its campus that was the site of a violent, racist incident from Atlanta’s past.

A new plaza commemorates the place where three Black seminary students were chased out of a cafeteria by the future governor of Georgia.

In 1964, Albert Dunn, Woodrow Lewis and George S. Wills Jr., three students from the Black Interdenominational Theological Center, walked into the Pickrick, a restaurant near Georgia Tech’s campus.