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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 opened on August 25, 2006.

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Did You Know?
On March 7, 1965, ABC News interrrupted the network's premiere showing of Judgement at Nuremburg (a movie about bringing to justice the Nazis guilty of war crimes, to show 15 minutes of raw footage from the attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Last Updated: November 18, 2008 at 13:27 EST