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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Civil rights landmarks mapped out in new guidebook (AP)

From The Associated Press via USA Today:

By Beth J. Harpaz, AP Travel Editor

NEW YORK — If you drive six miles southwest of Anniston, Ala., you'll pass the spot where a bus was bombed in 1961 and the passengers — civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders — were beaten by a mob.

There's no marker there, but it's one of 400 places in a new book called On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail (Algonquin Books, $18.95).

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-02-07-civil-rights-landmark-guidebook_N.htm

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