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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Sunday. There are plenty of things to do in Selma. Every tour must include a walk across the bridge, […]