Before leaving office in early 2017, President Barack Obama signed into law the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, a new federal district that includes two of the three Alabama Churches that made the U. S. Tentative List for World Heritage back in 2008. This session will explore the process whereby these and other places of conscience associated with the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s are being considered as part of a larger Serial Nomination of U. S. Civil Rights Sites for the National Park Service Office of International Affairs to propose for inscription on the World Heritage List. Chairing the session will be William J. Pencek, the executive director of US/ICOMOS, which plays a role in getting sites approved for the World Heritage List. Brent Leggs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation assisted in the preparation of materials resulting in the new Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument while historian Glenn Eskew is heading up the Georgia State University World Heritage Initiative that, with the assistance of University of South Carolina Professor of History Patricia Sullivan, is preparing a serial nomination of historic places associated with the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Overseeing the effort from the perspective of the National Park Service Office of International Affairs is Steven Morris.