U.S. Civil Rights Trail

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is a collection of historically significant sites across the United States that commemorate key events, locations, and figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

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instanceOf civil rights heritage project
heritage trail
tourism initiative
commemorates Little Rock Nine
Martin Luther King Jr.
Medgar Evers
Rosa Parks
civil rights activists
country United States of America
surface form: United States
focusesOn African-American civil rights
American civil rights movement
surface form: Civil Rights Movement

nonviolent protest
school desegregation
voting rights
hasPart 16th Street Baptist Church
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park
Edmund Pettus Bridge
F.W. Woolworth Building (Jackson, Mississippi)
F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro
surface form: Greensboro Four Woolworth’s Sit-In Site

Little Rock Central High School
surface form: Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Medgar Evers Home Museum
surface form: Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument

Memphis sanitation workers' strike
surface form: Memphis sanitation strike sites

National Civil Rights Museum
surface form: National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel

Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
South Carolina State House grounds civil rights sites
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
inception 2018
language English
locatedIn Alabama
Southern United States
surface form: American South

Arkansas
Georgia
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Washington, D.C.
operator state tourism agencies in the United States
purpose heritage tourism
historic preservation
public education about civil rights history
theme racial equality
social justice
website https://civilrightstrail.com/

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Selma, Alabama listedOn U.S. Civil Rights Trail
Edmund Pettus Bridge partOf U.S. Civil Rights Trail