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		<description><![CDATA[The first black public high school built in Atlanta, Booker T. Washington High School was constructed in the 1920s during the city's major school building program. It was, and still is, an important cultural institution in the black community.
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		<description><![CDATA[Monroe Elementary (Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site) and Sumner Elementary (a National Historic Landmark) played a significant role in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education.  On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision forced the desegregation of public schools in 21 states.
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daisy Bates House, a National Historic Landmark, was the de facto command post for the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mrs. Daisy Lee Gaston Bates, who, with her husband Lucius Christopher (L.C.) Bates, resided at this address during the Central High School desegregation crisis in 1957-1958. The house served as a haven for the nine African-American students who desegregated the school and a place to plan the best way to achieve their goals.
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		<description><![CDATA[This is where Duke Ellington resided as a child and where he began to play the piano. Unfortunately, the site is not open to the public. ]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1915, the Eighth Regiment Armory was the first armory building to be erected for a regiment commanded entirely by African Americans.  Currently not open to the public. 
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil rights leader Elizabeth Harden Gilmore lived and worked in this house from 1947 until her death in 1986. She pioneered efforts to integrate her state's schools, housing, and public accommodations and to pass civil rights legislation enforcing such integration.
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		<description><![CDATA[Completed in 1910, the Herndon Home, was the residence of Alonzo Herndon and his family. Herdon was a former slave raised in a sharecropping family after the Civil War. Investing his income into real estate, Herndon became the largest black property owner in Atlanta by 1900.
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		<description><![CDATA[Author, philosopher, theologian, and educator Howard Thurman spent most of his childhood in this late 19th-century, two-story, wood frame vernacular residence. In quiet moments before a civil rights march, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., used to read from Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited--a book that laid much of the philosophical foundation for a nonviolent civil rights movement. According to Thurman, fear, deception, and hatred prohibit a peaceful end to racial bigotry.

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		<description><![CDATA[Ida Bell Wells-Barnett lived in Chicago in this late-19th-century Romanesque Revival style stone residence while fighting to end lynching, segregation and the economic oppression of African Americans. She and her husband bought the building in 1919 and lived there until 1929. Currently a private residence and not open to the public.
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		<description><![CDATA[Juanita Craft lived in this modest, one-story wood frame house for 50 years, and both Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., visited her there to discuss the future of the civil rights movement. Craft played a crucial role in integrating two universities, the 1954 Texas State Fair, and Dallas theaters, restaurants, and lunch counters. As a tribute to her anti-discrimination efforts, Dallas named a city park and recreation center after her.
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated here at the Lorraine Hotel.  Built in 1925, the Lorraine Hotel was a typical Southern hotel accessible only to whites in its early history. However, by the end of World War II, the Lorraine had become a black establishment which had among its early guests Cab Colloway, Count Basie, and other prominent jazz musicians, in addition to later celebrities such as Roy Campanella, Nat King Cole, and Aretha Franklin.  
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 19, 1925, Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little) was born in a now-demolished house on this site. As a civil rights leader he advocated racial separatism over integration and the legitimacy of violence in self-defense. He also championed the beauty and worth of blackness and black Americans' African past
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		<description><![CDATA[This traditionally black neighborhood of several blocks in Atlanta includes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was a pastor, and his gravesite. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the nation's most prominent leader in the 20th-century struggle for civil rights
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the home of Mary Church Terrell, who at age 86 led the successful fight to integrate eating places in DC. She succeeded in persuading the local chapter of the Natl Association of University Women to admit black members. She was president of the Natl Association of Colored Women, founder of the NAACP's Executive Committee, member of a committee investigating alleged police mistreatment of African Americans, and the 1st black woman in the U.S. to earn an appointment to a school board.
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, a National Historic Site, was significant as a center for the development of strategies and programs which advanced the interests of African American women and the black community.
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		<description><![CDATA[Simkins was able to serve in leadership positions that were traditionally unavailable to women in the civil rights movement. In 1981 she was honored by a coalition of civil rights groups, who established an endowment in her name to provide income for activists working for the causes of the underprivileged. Hundreds of people attended a memorial service following her death on April 5, 1992.
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		<description><![CDATA[The Old Slave Mart, located on one of Charleston's few remaining cobblestone streets, is the only known extant building used as a slave auction gallery in South Carolina. Once part of a complex of buildings, the Slave Mart building is the only structure to remain.
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		<description><![CDATA[This modest, two-story masonry residence built in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 is associated with an African American family's struggle for justice that had a profound effect on American society. Because the J. D. Shelley family decided to fight for the right to live in the home of their choosing, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of restrictive racial covenants in housing in the landmark 1948 case of Shelley vs. Kraemer.  Not open to public.
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