Alabama

Follow the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail

Selma Montgomery National Historic Trail

One of the 13 sites proposed for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Civil Rights Trail 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 at the Alabama State […]

Greensboro, Alabama tour: Visit the Safe House museum, where King found shelter from the Klan

The late 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. “He was a little man, but he had a booming voice,” recalled Burroughs, who died in 2019. […]

Malone Hood Plaza and Foster Auditorium: Where George Wallace made his ‘Stand in the Schoolhouse Door’

When Alabama Gov. George Wallace positioned himself defiantly at the entrance to Foster Auditorium, a University of Alabama gymnasium in 1963, he created a moment and phrase that still echoes more than half a century later. Today, visiting the site and adjacent Malone Hood Plaza, is one of the most meaningful things to do in […]

Moton Field, Tuskegee: Where the Airmen took flight

The movie Red Tails chronicles the wartime glory of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.

Tuskegee offers the one of the most inspiring sites on the civil rights trail, and one of the most appalling. The historic college town’s home to the heroic Tuskegee Airmen museum, a National Historic Site at Moton Field airport, honoring the Red Tails, a group of African-American fighter pilots who battled the Nazis abroad and […]

Things to do in Marion, Alabama: The city that sparked Selma, and raised Coretta Scott King

Tiny Marion, Alabama, is a small country town that plays an out-sized role in civil rights history. Coretta Scott King’s hometown, it’s located 30 miles north of Selma on AL 45. It’s where Martin Luther King Jr., was married, and where the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson happened, sparking the Selma-to-Montgomery march. A civil rights […]

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 an 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.