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Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff Updated by an Factmonster Editor on February 21, 2017

Civil Rights Landmarks
Across the United States, places where the movement took shape

by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Alabama

First African Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa

Brown Chapel, Selma

First Baptist Church, Selma

Selma-to Montgomery, National Historic Trail & All-American Road

City of St. Jude Historic District, Montgomery

U.S. Post Office & Courthouse, Montgomery

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery

Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, Tuskegee

West Park (Kelly Ingram Park), Birmingham

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham

Georgia

Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, Atlanta

Atlanta Center University Historic District, Atlanta

Mount Zion Baptist Church, Albany

Dorchester Academy Boys' Dormitory, Midway

Florida

Lincolnville Historic District, St. Augustine

Howard Thurman House, Daytona Beach

South Carolina

All-Star Bowling Lane, Orangeburg

South Carolina College Historic District, Orangeburg

North Carolina

F.W. Woolworth Building, Greensboro

Virginia

Robert Russa Moton High School,Farmville

Washington, DC

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC

Mary Church Terrell House, Washington, DC

New York
24. Paul Robeson Home, New York City
25. Dunbar Apartments, New York City

Massachusetts
26. William Monroe Trotter House, Dorchester
27. W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite, Great Barrington

West Virginia
28. Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House,Charleston

Kentucky
29. Lincoln Hall, Berea College, Berea
30. Whitney M. Young Jr. Birthplace,Simpsonville

Illinois
31. Oscar Stanton De Priest House, Chicago
32. Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, Chicago

Missouri
33. Shelley House, St. Louis

Nebraska
34. Malcolm X House Site, Omaha

Kansas
35. Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka

Nevada
36. Moulin Rouge Hotel, Las Vegas

Oklahoma
37. Calvary Baptist Church, Oklahoma City

Texas
38. Juanita Craft House, Dallas

Arkansas
39. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Little Rock

Tennessee
40. Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, Memphis
41. Lorraine Hotel, Memphis

Mississippi
42. Tougaloo College, Tougaloo

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See also:

Martin Luther King, Jr., Timeline