Dr. Sims-Alvarado is a historian and author. She created an "open museum" along four miles of the Atlanta BeltLine Trail that features images and information from her book "Images of America: Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement, 1944-1968". The exhibit will be up through December 1. Dr. Sims-Alvarado will talk about her exhibit and the stories she uncovered during her research.
Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado received a B.A. in Mass Media Arts, a M.A. in African and African-American Studies from Clark Atlanta University and a Ph.D. in History from Georgia State University. She is currently pursuing a M.A. degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University. She is a multi-recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship with the Georgia Historical Society and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.