It’s our obligation to remember the past in hopes of making a better future. Here are over a dozen monuments, museums, and historical sites from the civil rights movement that every American needs to visit.
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
Like Montgomery and Selma, Birmingham’s civil rights legacy is as significant as it is tragic. Located within the six blocks of the Birmingham Civil Rights District, thewas the site of one of the saddest and most despicable tragedies of the civil rights movement. In September 1963 four Klansmen bombed the church, killing four girls aged 11 to 14—Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley—and injuring over a dozen others.
The next day King was assassinated outside his room at the Lorraine Motel. Today the Lorraine makes up the core of the, which is devoted not just to the civil rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s but to the long fight for equality that stretches back to the earliest days of slavery in the American colonies.
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