Former Civil Rights Battlegrounds Await Culmination Of Historic Election

BIRMINGHAM, AL - NOVEMBER 03: Underneath a poster featuring Martin Luther King Jr., a boy gets his hair cut in a barber shop located in the Civil Rights District, an area where several notable events in the civil rights movement occured November 3, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, along with Selma and Montgomery, were touchstones in the civil rights movement where Martin Luther King, Jr. led massive protests, eventually culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ending voter disfranchisement against African-Americans. Americans tomorrow go to the polls in the first presidential election featuring a major party African-American candidate, Obama, who squares off against Republican candidate John McCain. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)