West of Inman Park is Atlanta’s famed Sweet Auburn district. This area is noted for being the center of African-American night life during a time when African Americans were restricted by white-owned businesses. The neighborhood’s Auburn Avenue was once hailed as the richest black street in America. Today, Auburn Avenue is the center of Atlanta’s African-American history and features the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Martin Luther King National Park Service Visitors’ Center, King’s birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King and his father preached. This area underwent extensive renovation in preparation for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.