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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Birmingham, AL
Civil Rights Movement

Documents the Civil Rights Movement through exhibits, oral histories, and artifacts. Located across the street from 16th Street Baptist Church, bombed in 1963, and Kelly Ingram Park.

Counter-Narrative

The myth this site refutes: that civil rights were granted by government. They were extracted through sustained, organized sacrifice.

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