How to Visit Historic Places During Black History Month

One way to experience Black History Month in the U.S. is to visit some of the important historical places to the African-American community. African-American history represents a long struggle for equality and expression. You can experience it by visiting landmarks from the Civil Rights Movement and the centers of art and music.

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1. Start in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There you can visit the Dr. Martin Luther King National Historical Site and the King Center. Both have exhibits about one of the most famous figures during the Civil Rights movement. Check out the city's newspaper, the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution," for special events during Black History Month.
2. Check out Birmingham, Alabama. In Birmingham, Dr. King wrote is most famous letters from prison; photographers showed the world pictures of police dogs attacking Black people; and four girls were killed when a bomb went off in the Sixteenth St. Baptist Church. You can learn about these things and more at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Find more events during Black History Month by looking online at Birmingham Black History.
3. Get a taste of blues and jazz during Black History Month by going to Chicago or New Orleans. In either of these towns, you can get a taste of the music developed by African-Americans in the early 1900s.
4. Spend some of your Black History Month in Montgomery, Alabama. Here Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man. This event sparked a chain of events which eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guaranteed the right to vote for all Americans.