Tour civil rights sites with book as your guide

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Charles E. Cobb Jr.'s "On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail " is a travel and history book, rolled into one. The black journalist who wrote it says he included well-known and little-known places "for the person who has a real interest in the civil rights movement and is not necessarily your ordinary tourist."

Charles E. Cobb Jr.'s book includes well-known sites, like the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. But the black journalist says he also wanted to include little-known places, like Highway 202 near Anniston, "for the person who has a real interest in the civil rights movement and is not necessarily your ordinary tourist."

Black students wait in vain for food service at this F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C., in this April 20, 1960 photo. The Woolworth's lunch counter that became a symbol of the nation's civil rights movement in 1960 is part of an exhibit of national icons at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

This photo released by the Smithsonian Institution shows the Woolworth's lunch counter from Greensboro, N.C., that became a symbol of the nation's civil rights movement in 1960, when African American staged sit-ins at the counter after being refused service.

Martin Luther King Jr. and his civil rights marchers head for Montgomery, the state's capitol, in this March 21, 1965 photo.

Demonstrators, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., in this March 10, 1965 photo, during a voter's rights march.

Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama, D-Ill., (far left, white shirt) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, with former President Bill Clinton, take part in the traditional walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery in March in Selma, Ala. To the right of President Clinton is Rose Sanders.

The face of the boy in the background reflects his feelings as he looks at two of the six black students who attempted to enter North Little Rock High School, Ark. in this Sept. 9, 1957 photo. The boy and other white students are not identified. The black youths are, Richard Richardson, 17, and Harold Smith, 17, (right.)

Contralto singer Marian Anderson performs on the steps of Washington's Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, in this April 9, 1939 file photo, after she had been refused permission to perform in Washington's Constitution Hall by the hall's owners, the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The statue of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers looks over Medgar Evers Boulevard in northeast Jackson, Miss. The man in the photo, Assistant Hinds County district attorney Bobby DeLaughter, led the successful prosecution of Evers' killer, Byron De La Beckwith, in a 1994 trail, 30 years after the murder in June 1963.

Little more than a plaque identifies this simple Jackson, Miss., house as the former home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Special street signs identify the Jackson, Miss., neighborhood of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

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Charles E. Cobb Jr.'s book includes well-known sites, like the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. But the black journalist says he also wanted to include little-known places, like Highway 202 near Anniston, "for the person who has a real interest in the civil rights movement and is not necessarily your ordinary tourist."

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