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Places Across the Country to Learn About African American History

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL WASHINGTON, D.C.

mong the wealth of African American history and culture in the nation’s capital is the not-to-be-missed , a granite 30-foot-tall statue of the civil rights icon, the first memorial on the Mall not dedicated to a war, president or white man, and just a short walk away from the Smithsonian National Museum of African

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