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Greenwood Rising: the Tulsa Massacre Museum Honors Black Wall Street

Step into the dark room, and you’re transported back a century to a moment of horror. Families huddle in terror as roaming gangs of armed men attack their neighborhood, setting fire to homes and businesses, shooting indiscriminately into crowds, and even dropping dynamite from a plane. When the violence subsided, Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, the […]

John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park remembers the Tulsa massacre

The single worst case of racial violence in U.S. history is little known even in its home state of Oklahoma. Only in recent years has the deadly destruction known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, gotten national attention. Ironically, it was a 2020 Donald Trump campaign rally in the city that first introduced many to the […]

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.