FILE- This Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, shows the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Ala. President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, designating an historic civil rights district in Birmingham as a national monument. The Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument will include the now-abandoned A.G. Gaston Motel, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. planned weeks of demonstrations against segregation in the spring of 1963; the park where black protesters were met by police dogs and fire hoses; the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four black girls died in a Ku Klux Klan bombing that year; and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. (Tamika Moore/AL.com via AP, File)
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