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[dropcap]Fourteen[/dropcap] states stretching from Kansas to Delaware, including all of the Deep South, are joining to promote the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, which will highlight about 130 sites linked to the modern civil rights movement. The joint effort is being unveiled as part of the MLK holiday weekend. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
Individual Southern states have used such promotions for years, beginning with a black history trail launched by Alabama in the 1980s, but never before have they joined together in a single push to bolster civil rights tourism, said Lee Sentell, a leader of the effort.
National Civil Rights Museum, AP Photo/Mark Humphrey
International Civil Rights Center & Museum, AP Photo/Skip Foreman
“Everyone wants to showcase their landmarks. For the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, we’re saying ‘What happened here changed the world,'” said Sentell, Alabama’s tourism director.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, AP Photo/Orlin Wagner
Tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, AP Photo/Branden Camp
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