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Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail
Things To Do
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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.
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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.
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Last Updated: July 26, 2006 at 12:20 EST |