Alabama

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

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. […]

Moton Field, Tuskegee: Where the Airmen took flight

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Things to do in Selma: Bloody Sunday, the bridge, churches and museums

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 […]

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.