Black History Month 2013: The best civil rights monuments to visit in America

Black History Month 2013: The best civil rights monuments to visit in AmericaF.W. Woolworth Store: located at 134 South Elm Street, Greensboro, N.C. African-American students from nearby HBCU North Carolina A&T began a student movement that gave youthful vigor to the civil rights movement when they sat in at the lunch counter here in 1961. The sit-ins were almost immediately duplicated at other stores in other states, most infamously and violently at this Jackson, Miss. Woolworth store (below). Can you imagine sitting here under these circumstances? Black History Month 2013: The best civil rights monuments to visit in America

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