Presidential Parkway was a proposed thoroughfare designed to cut through several historic neighborhoods and Olmsted Linear Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Its origins date back to the 1960s when the Georgia Department of Transportation bought land for a proposed Stone Mountain Tollway and Interstate 485. The project was never completed due to negative feedback from community groups and government leaders, including then Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, although a large swath of land was cleared and left vacant. In the 1980s, construction began on a four-lane highway on the 219 acre vacant lot (known then as the "Great Park") that would house the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. Residents of several historic neighborhoods, including Inman Park and Druid Hills, worked together through protest and legal battles to stop the road construction, saving the neighborhoods and Olmsted Linear Park. These groups and the Georgia Department of Transportation reached a compromise that included a scaled-down version of the original road, later known as Freedom Parkway, with remaining land used as park space, later known as Freedom Park. Freedom Parkway was rededicated John Lewis Freedom Parkway in 2018 in honor of local U.S. Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

Founded in 1983, the Olmsted Parks Society was an organization devoted to the identification, restoration, and preservation of the works of American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. Olmsted is considered the father of landscape architecture in America. One of the Society’s aims was to educate the public to the value of Olmsted's work in Atlanta, and through their affiliation with the National Association of Olmsted Parks, to participate in that effort throughout the country. Olmsted Parks Society merged with Olmsted Linear Parks Alliance in 2004.