Location, politics, and the production of civil rights memorial landscapes1

Urban Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-56

  Dwyer, Owen J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil rights movement; Commemoration; Heritage tourism; Memorials; Relative location

Indexed keywords

CIVIL RIGHTS; HERITAGE TOURISM; LOCATION DECISION; MONUMENT; MUSEUM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036385061     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.23.1.31     Document Type: Article

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