Birmingham, AL – The Birmingham City Council has unanimously approved a civil rights trail tracing how the city helped change a segregated nation.
The council, which approved the trail Tuesday, endorsed spending $1 million to create it.
Mayor Larry Langford said the initial phase, to be completed this year, will feature informational signs and kiosks.
Sites will include Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four black girls died in a bombing in 1963, and the site of the old city jail, where the Rev. Martin Luther King wrote his famous call to action, ``Letter from Birmingham Jail.''
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