Selma Montgomery Historic Trail - What We Found In Selma

What These Tourists Found In Selma May Disturb You
Vice President Joe Biden and other lawmakers leads a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. They were commemorating the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers when they crossed the bridge on a march from Selma to Montgomery. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Vice President Joe Biden and other lawmakers leads a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 3, 2013. They were commemorating the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when police officers beat marchers when they crossed the bridge on a march from Selma to Montgomery. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

This summer I took my kids on a driving tour of the United States. Along the way we visited quite a few National Historic Sites from Gettysburg, to Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania (a fort from the French and Indian War), to Hopewell Mounds, Ohio (ancient mounds built by long-disappeared Indians), to the Westward Expansion museum in St. Louis, Missouri, to the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Kansas (a piece of pristine prairie complete with a resident buffalo herd), to name just a few. All of these sites were well-maintained and well-attended and at each I collected a glossy color pamphlet about the site with a history lesson and photos.

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