Montgomery Advertiser: 'We have to know this history': Congressional leaders make annual pilgrimage to Alabama

On Friday, congressional officials visited the Memorial for Peace and Justice, honoring victims of racial terror lynchings,— only designated a federal hate crime in February, 65 years after the gruesome murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till — and on Saturday the Frank M. Johnson Jr. Courthouse, historic First Baptist Church and Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery.