In Atlanta, a Split over the Plan for Civil Rights Museum ; Atlanta Wrestles with Finding the Proper Location and Presentation for the Museum

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Atlanta's plan to build a civil rights museum is stirring debate about which venue would best tell the story of that turbulent and inspiring time: downtown, among sleek corporate buildings and cultural institutions, or Martin Luther King Jr.'s old stomping grounds on Auburn Avenue, known as "black Main Street," with its housing projects and fried fish joints.

A decision about where to put a civil rights museum is likely to inform how the story about the civil rights movement is told - and is as important as the papers and artifacts that the building will house, say experts.

For some, the museum should focus on how the movement of the 1950s and '60s succeeded in …