Visiting the Civil Rights Trail in Alabama

The Selma Interpretive Center, run by the National Parks Service, is the second of three centers along the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.

The National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, displays artifacts and photos of the struggle to gain voting rights for African-Americans.

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama, was the starting point for marchers on the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. There is a Martin Luther King Jr. room containing mementos of the era. A bust of King sits in front of the church.

The Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. On March 25, 1965, some 25,000 marchers arrived here from Selma demanding voting rights for African-Americans.

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a National Historic Landmark where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached from the pulpit. The church was also a center of the Montgomery bus boycott.

The Rosa Parks Museum is a major landmark in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. It was constructed on the site of the old Empire Theatre, where Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in 1955.

An exhibit on the Selma to Mongomery march at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama.

The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church on Sept. 15, 1963 killed four girls, marking a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Named for a former Confederate brigadier general and U.S. Senator from Alabama, the bridge is famous as the site of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators attempting to march to the state capital of Montgomery.

The main thoroughfare in Selma, Alabama. It runs to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, taking travelers on U.S. Route 80 across the Alabama River.