A woman walks past the abandoned A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Ala., that was home to a strategy “war room” for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. The hotel will be renovated as part of a civil rights monument that will join the National Park Service under a proclamation signed Jan. 12 by President Obama.
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Obama names 3 national monuments honoring civil rights
The Obama administration has designated three new national monuments honoring civil rights history. The designations were announced Thursday, Jan. 12, just eight days before the nation’s first African-American president leaves office.
