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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is on a mission to save the U.S.'s lesser-known landmarks. These are this year's most endangered historic places.
A farm property where civil rights protesters once camped during the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama Cheryl Gardner Davis
From the Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah trading post for Navajo communities, the National Trust for Historic Preservation today detailed the sites that have been selected for its annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The list underlines the trust’s commitment to illuminating neglected corners of history especially African American and Native American history and the need to move swiftly lest crucial landmarks be lost.
“Finding places that will tell the full history of our country is a priority in all of our work,” said Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer for the trust, in an interview. This year, she adds, the organisation received 120 nominations from 40 states and Puerto Rico before narrowing the list to 11 places.