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Washington, D.C.

Carter G. Woodson Home

The former home of the "Father of Black History"
Glen Echo, Maryland

Glen Echo Park Carousel

A merry-go-round that became a rallying point for the early Civil Rights Movement.
Washington, D.C.

Frederick Douglass' Growlery

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.
Bristol City, England

Bristol Bus Boycott Plaque

A plaque honoring those who, in 1963, changed civil rights in Britain.
Westminster, California

Mendez Historic Freedom Trail and Monument

A site dedicated to the civil rights case that helped desegregate schools in California.
Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights
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Charlie’s Place Episode 5: All Costs

August 26th, 1950 was the night that changed Myrtle Beach. It changed Charlie and the impact reverberated throughout the south.
Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights
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Charlie’s Place Episode 4: Mr. Nobody From Nowhere

There’s much mystery surrounding Charlie Fitzgerald and who he was before Myrtle Beach. Before he was Charlie Fitzgerald he was Lucious Rucker. So who is Lucious Rucker?
Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights
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Charlie’s Place Episode 1: Whispering Pines

At the height of segregation when everywhere else was divided, Black and white people danced together to the biggest R&B acts of the time at Charlie’s Place.
Annapolis, Maryland

Equal Justice Mural

A mural honoring two trailblazing Supreme Court Justices—Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Memphis, Tennessee

The Four Way

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.
London, England

Frank Gilbert Crichlow Plaque

Celebrating the man behind the Mangrove, a restaurant that became a crucial hub for Black activism in London.
Jacksonville, Florida

Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing Park

This park commemorates the birthplace and legacy of the brothers who authored a song that has come to be known as the Black National Anthem.
Abbeville, Alabama

Rosa Parks Childhood Home

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.
Siem Reap, Cambodia

Phare, the Cambodian Circus

A Guinness World Record-holding social enterprise whose shows don't shy away from heavy themes.
Norlina, North Carolina

Soul City

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.
Jackson, Mississippi

Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.
Boston, Massachusetts

George Middleton House

Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.
Boston, Massachusetts

'The Embrace'

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.