Alabama

A Montgomery civil rights museum and its harrowing lynching memorial

Equal Justice Initiative 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

Selma 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. […]

Where to go

A traveler can find traces of civil rights history across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. But the key battles of the Civil Rights Movement were fought in the Deep South, and it’s where you can find historic sites and moving monuments. We’ll show you how to visit and experience these important places, including:

Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of Bloody Sunday
The “lynching memorial” in Montgomery, Alabama
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where four girls died in a Sunday school bombing
The Lorraine Motel, where King was assassinated in Memphis
Central High School, where the Little Rock Nine students faced angry mobs in Arkansas
The Woolworth’s counter where students stage a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home and grave in Atlanta

Who we are

Civil Rights Travel is online guidebook designed to plan a journey into the history of the civil rights movement.

This website offers detailed city tours, videos and much more, telling the stories of heroes who confronted racism and injustice, and changed the world.

You’ll find multiple itineraries, and suggestions for making the most of your travels, providing great restaurant and hotel tips, and cool things to see along the way.

It was created by veteran journalist Larry Bleiberg, an award-winning travel editor and writer, who has published in the top newspapers, magazines and websites in the world.