the-movemnt: President Obama designates 3 new national monuments — all civil rights sites Clos
the-movemnt: President Obama designates 3 new national monuments — all civil rights sites Closing in on his final week in office, President Obama on Thursday designated three spots as national monuments — all of them related to U.S. civil rights. The sites include a church in Alabama where four young black girls were killed by a bomb, a Freedom Riders monument in Alabama and a former school for freed slaves in South Carolina. “Today, I am designating new national monuments that preserve critical chapters of our country’s history, from the Civil War to the civil rights movement,” Obama said in a White House statement. “These monuments preserve the vibrant history of the Reconstruction Era and its role in redefining freedom.” Read more follow @the-movemnt -- source link