Big piece of civil rights history is falling apart

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Years of neglect and the battering winds of Hurricane Katrina have all but destroyed the country store where the crime that galvanized the civil rights movement began.

The events at Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in August 1955 led to the murder of a black teenager named Emmett Till. "Like the Liberty Bell, it's the symbol of the movement," Democratic state Sen. David Jordan says. "That ought not to be lost."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ts-store_x.htm

I also read the Selma bridge was in bad shape.