KAYE LBA

downtown montgomery

2018

alabama river

montgomery

2018

historical marker: montgomery bus boycott of 1955

montgomery

2018

In her autobiography, My Story, Rosa Parks said:

“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

civil rights memorial - southern poverty law center

montgomery

2018

Created by designer Maya Lin, the memorial is a circular black granite table that records the names of 41 martyrs of the civil rights movement from 1954- 1968.

On a curved black granite wall behind the table is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s paraphrase of Amos 5:24 - We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

equal justice initiative (EJI)

montgomery

2018

Between the Civil War and World War II, thousands of African Americans were lynched in the United States. Lynchings were violent and public acts of torture that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials. EJI has documented more than 4000 racial terror lynchings in 12 Southern states between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950.

EJI is working with communities to commemorate and recognize the traumatic era of lynching by collecting soil from lynching sites across the country. These jars of collected soil serve as a visible memory of the history of racial injustice in the US.

freedom riders museum - original greyhound bus depot

montgomery

2018

The Freedom Riders were a group consisting of students and civil rights activists who used nonviolent tactics and rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states to test the United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared that segregation in interstate travel, including bus station facilities, violated the Interstate Commerce Act. Despite the ruling, law enforcement officials within some local jurisdictions in southern states still supported segregation between African Americans and European Americans on interstate buses, and many citizens in the South also supported the segregationist stance within their towns.

On May 20, 1961, the Freedom Riders were attacked by a local mob at this location, which was formerly the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station.

kress building

downtown montgomery

2018

S. H. Kress & Co. were a chain of “five and dime” retail stores, which operated from 1896 to 1981.

Kress retail stores excluded African Americans from its lunch counters thereby becoming key locations for civil rights protests during the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins.

state capital building

downtown montgomery

2018

On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLS) had been advocating for voting rights.

selma center for nonviolence, truth and reconciliation

selma

2018

Founded in 2015, the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation was established to address the continued violence and conflicts that still plague Selma and the country.

The Center works in various sectors such as education and law to address the root causes of physical, mental, emotional, economic, political and racial violence with the goal of implementing long-range solutions to systemic violence and building what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr called the “ Beloved Community”.

King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings.

selma city hall

selma

2018

edmund pettus bridge

selma

2018

Built in 1940, the bridge is named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Confederate general, US Senator from Alabama, and Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge was the site of Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965, when armed police attacked voting rights marchers with billy clubs and tear gas as they were attempting to march to the state capital in Montgomery.

downtown selma

selma

2018

sculpture of “jeffrey”

selma

2018

Kathryn Tucker Windham was a storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist who wrote a series of books of "true" ghost stories, based on local folklore, and on a ghost named Jeffrey, who purportedly lived in her house.

downtown selma

selma

2018

state parole office

selma

2018

brown chapel a.m.e. church

selma

2018

This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery Marches in 1965 and, as the meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

george washington carver homes

selma

2018

Organizers from across the country, including Dr. King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), were housed and fed at the GWC homes during the movement for voting rights.

live oaks cemetery

selma

2018

Live Oaks Cemetery was founded in 1829 and contains a number of confederate monuments and burials.

camden

2018

gaines ridge restaurant

camden

2018

The structure dates to 1827.

gees bend quilt collective

boykin

2018

The women of Gee’s Bend—a small, remote, black community in Alabama—have created hundreds of quilts dating from the early twentieth century to the present. Resembling an inland island, Gee’s Bend is surrounded on three sides by the Alabama River. The seven hundred or so inhabitants of this small, rural community are mostly descendants of slaves, and for generations they worked the fields belonging to the local Pettway plantation.

boykin

2018