A handful of searing images capture the clear moral certainty of the Black civil rights struggle: the Woolworth's lunch counter protesters being pummelled by white bullyboys in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Memphis, Tennessee balcony of a Blacks-only motel on which Martin Luther King lies dying as his colleagues point in the direction of the shooter, German shepherds being sicced by police on protesting children in Birmingham, Alabama all spring to mind.
On Feb. 1, the start of Black History Month, Leona Tate stood near the doorway she first entered more than 60 years ago as one of three Black students to integrate the McDonogh 19 Elementary School in New Orleans.
<p>Two AJC reporters offer a guide to those interested in marking Black History Month with a tour of Alabama's major civil rights sites, memorials and museums. </p>
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