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Civil rights tourism gaining ground in Alabama: Memorials to black leaders, '60s 'battleground' sites often top visitors' travel agenda
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - In Montgomery, Jefferson Davis Avenue crosses
Rosa Parks Avenue, creating an appropriate intersection for a place
that used to rely on Civil War tourism but that now draws visitors to
a growing number of civil rights attractions.
Events that made Alabama a civil rights battleground in the 1950s
and '60s - Ku Klux Klan bombings, beatings of Freedom Riders and the
jailing of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - are now being remembered
in state-of-the-art museums and hist...
