NewsJanuary 13, 2017
Obama adds Alabama civil-rights area to Park Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday designating a historic civil-rights district in Alabama as a national monument, placing several blocks of a city once rocked by racial violence on par with landmarks including the Grand Canyon...Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday designating a historic civil-rights district in Alabama as a national monument, placing several blocks of a city once rocked by racial violence on par with landmarks including the Grand Canyon.
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The National Park Service will have oversight of a downtown section of Birmingham that was a focal point of civil-rights struggles in 1963 against harsh enforcement of laws mandating racial segregation.
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