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What can Montgomery Alabama teach Americ...

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The landscape of Montgomery, Alabama is a monument to Civil Rights, but is America losing touch with the lessons of that movement?

Montgomery, Alabama was the setting for much of the battle for Civil Rights.

As the country celebrates its 250 anniversary, NPR’s Debbie Elliot went to Montgomery to see what it can teach us. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider

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This episode was produced by Tyler Bartlam. 

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