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Central High, which in 1957 was a flashpoint in the struggle to integrate the nation's public schools, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Emmitt Till
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In 1955 14-year-old Emmitt Till traveled from Chicago to the the Mississippi Delta to spend the summer with family. He supposedly "got smart" with a white woman at this country store in Money, Mississippi and was lynched a couple days later by her husband. The husband and his accomplice were tried and acquitted of the murder in this courtroom, which sits of the second floor of a still-used courthouse in Sumner.
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Montgomery, Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama
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The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The "Children's Crusade" emerged from here in 1963 to confound Bull Connor and change America. A few weeks later Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley were killed when the church was bombed. Today a statue of Martin Luther King stands guard across the street.
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Brown v. Board of Education
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March to Montgomery in 1965.
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The Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, and Brown Chapel AME Church, where the protesters gathered before the march to Montgomery in 1965.
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Rosa Parks Blvd. and Jeff Davis Ave. -
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The gravesite of James Chaney -
Freedom Riders arrived