PHOTOS: A look back at Freaknik ahead of documentary release
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Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Scenes from Freaknik
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told FILE - Crowds of people jam Marietta Street for Freaknik near the intersection of Peachtree Street in Atlanta on April 19, 1996. A new Hulu documentary “Freaknik: The Wildest Story Never Told,” touches on how the event started as an innocent Black College cookout that ultimately drew thousands from across the United States. (Philip McCollum/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File) (Philip McCollum/AP)
Freaknik file photo Some 200,000 to 300,00 people arrived every third week in April and caused chaos and mayhem. (WSBTV.com News Staff)
GF Default - Freaknik returns to Atlanta ... and here's what to expect
Freaknik: The college spring break picnic turned divisive street festival that snarled traffic and enraged many Atlantans in the mid-1990s waned until it eventually died in 1999.
Scenes from Freaknik
Freaknik, the yearly event in the 1990s that highlighted Black culture, HBCUs, and Hip Hop.
Freaknic party flyer
Freaknik partygoers in 1996. AJC file photo/W.A. Bridges
GF Default - Freaknik returns to Atlanta ... and here's what to expect
Posing for a photo along Lee Street are Missy Moore, 16 (from left), Shaune' Leonard, 20, and Toia Williams, 20. All three came to Freaknik from from Hammond, Ind. Gordon Green is the photographer. (Jean Shifrin / AJC)
