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Dana Milbank: Civil Rights Trail provides an ideal perspective on modern America

Washington • My wife and I took our kids on a civil rights tour of the South over spring break, a trip planned before we knew it would be the week Muellermania engulfed Washington.

As it turned out, though, the Civil Rights Trail offered an ideal perspective from which to view the mayhem in the capital caused by the special counsel's report.

While Washington churned, I walked along a quiet hillside above Montgomery, Ala., home of the year-old National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a monument to the 4,400 African Americans lynched by white mobs between Reconstruction and the civil rights era.