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Civil rights trail book aims to make history easy to digest

ATLANTA • By highlighting cities that played host to significant events during the civil rights movement, a new book aims to make that complex history easier to understand and to

Footprints Of History: New Civil Rights Trail Book Prominently Features Atlanta Sites

Lee Sentell says the idea for “The Official United States Civil Rights Trail” came from a conversation he had years ago with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice. “She said people don’t know the story,” said Sentell. “If you don’t know the story, then you don’t care. And so that’s what led me to this idea of ‘let’s help tell the story. ” And so the book was born, filled with page after page of striking photos alongside historical context. The Civil Rights Trail spans 14 states, stretching as far north as Wilmington, Delaware, west to Topeka, Kansas, and across the south from to Louisiana to Florida.

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