What some of the most important Civil Rights sites look like from the air.

The Civil Rights movement was defined by seismic events taking place in the South: the murder of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks refusing to leave her bus seat, and Martin Luther King, Jr.s Selma-to-Montgomery march. Here, we revisit the sites from the sky. (3:07)


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