Organizers say they hope the exhibit will bring the unvarnished reality of the bus boycott home to viewers. In some ways, we've romanticized the civil rights movement, ... We often forget just how strong the walls of segregation were, just how close to the surface racial hatred was. This wasn't simply a walk in the park.
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