If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. 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. […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. 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 […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. 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 […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. Before 1965, the world had never heard of Selma. But in March that year, it became known around the world as a place of protest, marches and savage police beatings on what is now called Bloody […]