Alabama
A Montgomery civil rights museum and its harrowing lynching memorial
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our full disclosure policy here. What is the power of a memorial? In Montgomery, the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice has single-handedly made the nation confront its violent racial past. Until its debut in 2018, mentioning […]
Birmingham tour: marches, police dogs and Dynamite Hill
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. When Dr. Martin Luther King pastored in Montgomery, Alabama, he was a frequent visitor to Birmingham, and came to know the city’s racial strife — and its African-American leaders. It would be hard to […]
Civil rights attractions in Montgomery Alabama: Rosa Parks, King and the Freedom Rides
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. No other city plays such a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement as Montgomery, Alabama. The sleepy state capital was not only where Rosa Parks made history and Martin Luther King Jr., made his name. […]
Follow the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. Only 54 miles separate Selma and Montgomery, but that span changed history. A five-day protest march to Montgomery in March 1965 riveted the nation, and attracted protesters from across the globe. When the marchers finally finished […]
Greensboro, Alabama tour: Visit the Safe House museum, where King found shelter from Klan
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. Therese Burroughs, founder of the Safe House museum remembered the last time Martin Luther King Jr. came to town. It was March 21, 1968, and the civil rights leader preached at her church in Greensboro, Alabama. […]