Editing Southern United States (section)

===Civil rights movement===
{{Main|Civil rights movement|Montgomery bus boycott|Martin Luther King Jr.}}
The South witnessed two major events in the lives of 20th century African Americans: the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] and the [[American Civil Rights Movement]]. The Great Migration began during World War I, hitting its high point during World War II. During this migration, Black people left the South to find work in Northern factories and other sectors of the economy.<ref>Katzman, 1996</ref>

The migration also empowered the growing Civil Rights Movement. While the movement existed in all parts of the United States, its focus was against disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow laws in the South. Most of the major events in the movement occurred in the South, including the [[Montgomery bus boycott]], the Mississippi [[Freedom Summer]], the March on [[Selma, Alabama]], and the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]] In addition, some of the most important writings to come out of the movement were written in the South, such as King's "[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]". Most of the civil rights landmarks can be found around the South. The [[Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument]] in Birmingham includes the [[Birmingham Civil Rights Institute]] which details Birmingham's role as the center of the Civil Rights Movement. The [[16th Street Baptist Church]] served as a rallying point for coordinating and carrying out the [[Birmingham campaign]] as well as the adjacent [[Kelly Ingram Park]]. This park served as ground zero for the infamous children's protest that eventually led to the passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]; it has since been rededicated as a place of "Revolution and Reconciliation" and is now the setting of moving sculptures related to the battle for Civil Rights in the city. Both Kelly Ingram Park and the 16th Street Baptist Church are centerpieces of the [[Birmingham Civil Rights District]]. The [[Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park]] in Atlanta includes a museum that chronicles the American Civil Rights Movement as well as Martin Luther King Jr.'s boyhood home on Auburn Avenue. Additionally, [[Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Georgia)|Ebenezer Baptist Church]] is located in the Sweet Auburn district as is the King Center, the location of Martin Luther and [[Coretta Scott King]]'s gravesites.