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Tour civil rights sites with book as your guide
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."
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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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