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Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail
Things To Do
 

Things To Do

  • Visitors are encouraged to drive the historic route from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL.

  • While in Selma visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Street Walking Tour which includes Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, First Baptist Church, Carver Homes and wayside exhibits.

  • Other sites of interest in Selma include the National Voting Rights Museum & park (privately owned), Slavery & Civil War Museum, Old Depot Museum, Smitherman Museum and Edmund Pettus Bridge.

  • The Lowndes County Interpretive Center is the first of three planned National Park Service visitor centers along the Trail route. The Interpretive Center is located midway between Selma and Montgomery.

  • In Montgomery visit the Rosa Parks Museum, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & parsonage, Alabama State Capitol and the Civil Rights Monument.

Contact Selma/Dallas or Montgomery Chamber of Commerce for other recreational and historical sites.

The Lowndes County Interpretive Center will be open beginning August 25, 2006.

Selma Hoses  

Did You Know?
"Bloody Sunday" refers to the day in March 1965 when Alabama State Troopers and local whites brutally attacked the non-violent marchers as they neared the Selmont area of U.S. Hwy. 80 and Kings Bend Road, leaving many of them bloodied and severely injured.

Last Updated: July 26, 2006 at 12:20 EST