The vision for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, which opened on Monday, evolved from chronicling the U.S. civil rights movement, for which Atlanta was a locus, to establishing a global center on human rights, said Ernest Greer, a lawyer on its board of directors.
The planners decided to broaden the focus beyond the United States to look at civil rights in an international context, as a component of human rights, said Greer, who is Greenberg Traurig’s local comanaging shareholder and the chairman of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
