GREENSBORO, N.C. — Each day, busloads of school children, vans full of of church groups or small pockets of tourists arrive at 134 S. Elm St. in downtown Greensboro.
For $15 per adult, $12 for seniors and either $8 or $10 per child, depending on age, people can step back in time to an era when society was divided into separate but unequal segments based on skin color.
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The International Civil Rights Center & Museum founded by Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston and former state Rep. Earl Jones, who spent 18 years on City Council, stands as a living record of the struggle for civil rights.
Just as the push for civil rights was an arduous, years-long battle, so too was an effort to fund, build and sustain the museum that opened 10 years ago.
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Read more here for reflections from leaders there and photos inside the facility.
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