Newly Designated National Monuments Highlight Nation's Civil Rights Struggle

President Obama has announced three new national monuments honoring the nation's civil rights struggle. The sites include locations where the Emancipation Proclamation was read, communities established by recently freed slaves, the one-time headquarters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights campaign, and the Anniston, Alabama, Greyhound bus station where Freedom Riders looking to test desegregation were attacked in 1961. Obama said in a statement "These monuments preserve the vibrant history of the Reconstruction Era and its role in redefining freedom,".