The ride for voting rights: Inside the journey to build Black voting power msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lee Sentell says the idea for “The Official United States Civil Rights Trail” came from a conversation he had years ago with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice.
“She said people don’t know the story,” said Sentell. “If you don’t know the story, then you don’t care. And so that’s what led me to this idea of ‘let’s help tell the story. ”
And so the book was born, filled with page after page of striking photos alongside historical context. The Civil Rights Trail spans 14 states, stretching as far north as Wilmington, Delaware, west to Topeka, Kansas, and across the south from to Louisiana to Florida.
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On Freedom Riders 60th anniversary, voting activists ask Biden to do more
Dozens of civil rights campaigners, traveling on five customized buses, were greeted in Atlanta on Monday by hundreds of local activists and Georgia residents, a local band and performances of the Electric Slide line dance in front of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Slain civil rights champion Martin Luther King served as a pastor at that church in the 1960s.
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Supporters exit one of the tour buses during a stop on the Freedom Ride For Voting Rights in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Merdie Nzanga
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