This Alabama city’s pivotal role in the Civil Rights struggle will be showcased by this multifaceted collection of landmarks, which was just dedicated over the weekend. From the A.G. Gaston Motel, a symbol of African-American entrepreneurship and a center of movement activity as well as the 16th Street Baptist Church, the tragic site of a KKK bombing in 1963 that outraged the nation, this collection of sites showcases Birmingham’s important place in history, and grew out of the city’s own efforts to recognize its past and focus on preservation.

Named after two key players in the early days of the organization—Alva Belmont, who was a major benefactor of the National Woman's Party, and Alice Paul, who founded the Party and was the chief strategist—the home of the National Woman’s Party, also known as the Sewall-Belmont House, is one of the oldest historic mansions in the capital, located near the Supreme Court and Senate office building. The decision to make this home a National Monument is the culmination of decades of work to preserve the mansion beginning in the early ‘70s, including support from conservationists, elected officials, and community leaders.

This complex of buildings and museums represent the promises of Reconstruction, the period after the Civil War where freed slaves started realizing their rights and determining their own destiny. This region in the Sea Islands or "Lowcountry" of southeastern South Carolina, liberated by Union forces in late 1861, became the “rehearsal for Reconstruction,” a place where freed blacks began starting up their own businesses, attending school, and starting their own churches, such as the famous Brick Baptist Church. Designated just last year, the park has limited services and is still under development.

Medgers Evers was on the front lines of the Mississippi Civil Rights struggle from 1955 until he was assassinated at his home in 1963. His battles in what was called the “deepest bastion of segregation” made him national leader, and his assassination was a catalyst for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After his death, his wife Myrlie took on a more prominent role in the NAACP. This site will be overseen and operated by nearby Tougaloo College.

Once known as part of Barrio Logan, due to its large number of Mexican residents, this 7.9-acre park in San Diego is home to the nation’s largest collection of outdoor murals. The site became a center of art and Latino culture when residents demanded the city stick by its promise to build a park in the area, and activists occupied the land in 1970 until an agreement was made to build a public green space. The overpasses and support pillars have since been decorated with colorful murals and artwork.

An attorney, poet, activist, teacher and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray was an early civil rights leader and trailblazer, coining the term “Jane Crow” to describe the impact of segregation on women. She even co-authored a judicial decision with future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in addition to writing a celebrated autobiography, Proud Shoes. Her 1950 volume on discriminatory laws, States' Laws on Race and Color, was called the “bible of the civil rights movement” by Thurgood Marshall. In 1966, she cofounded the National Organization for Women.

Nicknamed "The World's Most Perfect Town" due to its orderly layout, green spaces and clockwork public services, this factory town, built by the railroad car tycoon, is a symbol of the rise of both the country's labor movement and black middle class. Industrialist George M. Pullman purchased 4,000 acres in 1879, with construction of the town beginning the following year utilizing bricks made from Lake Calumet Clay. It was one of the first examples of mass-scale, industrial construction, a process that created a village of 1,000 buildings in just three years. Architect Solon Spencer Beman was proud his row houses provided an above-average standard of living for workers.

The Stonewall riots began at this small bar on Christopher Street in New York CIty’s Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969, and are seen by many as the catalyst for the modern LGBT rights movement. An unplanned response to regular, city-sanctioned harassment by the police turned into a nearly week-long conflict that gained the national media spotlight and helped kickstart a new movement for equality.

Known as Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, this estate was home to activist Cesar Chavez, considered the country’s most famous Latino activist, who popularized the “Yes We Can” chant (or "¡Si se puede!"). His work on behalf of farm and agricultural workers, via a myriad of protests boycotts and fasts in California and beyond helped increase wages, secure worker’s rights, and led to the formation of the country's first permanent agricultural union, United Farm Workers.

Born into slavery, Charles Young was a pioneering African-American soldier in the 19th century, graduating from West Point, serving as the first black national park superintendent, and was the highest-ranking black officer in the U.S. Army until he passed away in 1922. Young was a leader among the Buffalo Soldiers, the first regular all-black unit in the U.S. military, that fought the Indian Wars of the later 19th century.

Opened in 1943, the Honouliuli Internment Camp was the largest in Hawaii, and the only one built for long-term internment of Japanese-Americans held in government camps during WWII. While President Obama designated the site a National Monument in 2015, it has yet to open to the public.

Not to be confused with the new Harriet Tubman park that opened in Maryland’s Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which tells the story of this pioneering activist, this park in upstate New York was Tubman’s home after the Civil War, and was her base for progressive political organizing around civil rights and women’s rights for decades.