The USA's Top Martin Luther King Sites

As many Americans honor the towering Civil Rights icon who gave his life to make the USA a little better place, his legacy is under greater attack than its been in years - including very soon at the highest levels of the U.S. government. And so on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a Cuban-American with afro-Cubans in my family tree, I’m proud to offer a rundown of the top sites throughout the American South that visitors can experience and learn about the history and legacy of this country’s greatest civil rights icon (and I say “top sites” because obviously the man got around far more than this, but for the most part these are the ones that are the most iconic and/or have organized visitor programs).

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