U.S. Civil Rights Trail with Deborah Douglas

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 6:45 p.m.

There are so many historic sites related to the Civil Rights movement. Many cities significant to the movement have trails with monuments, memorials, museums, and the historic sites themselves. Deciding where to go and putting together an itinerary can be time-consuming and without prior knowledge can be incomplete. Deborah Douglas has curated a U.S. Civil Rights Trail in a guidebook that is complete with planning tools, personal experiences, and general tourism elements. In The Culture Report In the Culture Report, I’m having a conversation with Elijah Heyward III, the Chief Operating Officer of the International African American Museum that is scheduled to open in 2022 in Charleston, SC, a city at the center of the African slave trade between 1783 and 1808 and located at the port where many enslaved Africans arrived.