http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pennsylvania-avenue20-2009jan20,0,3109115.storyPennsylvania Avenue paved with pain, progress
The Washington roadway has been the scene of oppression and hope. Obama will make the trek past dramatic civil-rights landmarks, and won't stop until he reaches the White House.
By Faye Fiore
10:47 AM PST, January 19, 2009
REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON -- When Barack Obama takes his triumphant ride along Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday, he will retrace the path of Ku Klux Klan marches and roll past the ghosts of hotels and movie theaters that used to turn away people like him.
This historic stretch, book-ended by the Capitol on one end and the White House on the other, has witnessed many of the milestones that made an Obama presidency possible. The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were signed here.