Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Dorchester Academy, today an active community center and museum, was founded as a school for freedpeople. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. prepared for the 1963 Birmingham campaign, one of the first major victories of the civil rights movement, in this building.
Courtesy of Winston Walker
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