A new online heritage trail created by local historians takes visitors on a digital tour of 100 sites in D.C. significant to the civil rights movement.

Among the notable stops you might recognize? Howard University Law School, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, All Souls Unitarian Church, the Wilson Building (where the D.C. government conducts its business), and the Barry Farm public housing complex (which is currently embroiled in fights over redevelopment and designation as a historic site).

The tour can be found on D.C. Historic Sites, which also hosts several other historical tours in the city.

“Throughout history, Washington, D.C. has served as the backdrop for many historic events in the fight for equal rights. This trail preserves and highlights the sites and stories associated with the Civil Rights Movement and the African American experience,” the D.C. Office of Planning wrote in a press release. “In this new digital tour, they have fleshed out stories of those who sought justice and equality in the 20th century civil rights movement.”

Each stop on the tour includes historical photographs and informational text, explaining the historical significance of the site. The stop at Browne Junior High School in Northeast, for example, tells the story of 13-year-old Marguerite Daisy Carr, whose family sued the superintendent over school integration in 1947. Carr and her family lost their case just four years before the Brown v. Board of Education case banned segregation in schools.

The tour is important because of D.C.’s unique history as a disenfranchised jurisdiction and a majority African American city, says Kim Williams of the Historic Preservation Office.

“Locally, [D.C.] was home to numerous people committed to education and the fight for equality through activism and legal battles, and it was the scene of important civil rights events such as picketing and sit-ins,” Williams says. “But, the city’s battle for Home Rule was unique to D.C. and really set it apart from what was happening in other cities around the country. D.C. was a majority African American city and entirely disenfranchised … Gaining Home Rule in 1974 was a huge victory for D.C. and the civil rights movement.”

The digital tour is the product of a collaboration between the D.C. Preservation League, Prologue D.C., and the Historic Preservation Office in the D.C. Office of Planning. It’s funded in part through a grant from the National Park Service.

The late Patsy Fletcher, a historian in the Historic Preservation Office, independently compiled a huge list of sites relevant to African American civil rights. Sixty of the stops on the tour come directly from Fletcher’s list.

Prologue D.C., a firm specializing in D.C. history, contributed to the research and writing for the stop descriptions. Flipping through other stops on the tour, you can learn about things like the fight against racist housing policies in D.C. or about businesses that served to empower black residents like Drum and Spear Bookstore.