1)  Where is the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail?

      The trail is located on U.S. Highway 80 and extends 54 miles 
      from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama through
      Lowndes County to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery,
      Alabama.

2)   What is the significance of the Trail?

       The Trail commemorates the events, people and route of
       the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama.

3)     What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

       This Act outlawed the requirement that would-be voters in
       the United States take literacy tests to qualify to register to
       vote, and provided for federal registration of voters--instead
       of state or local voter registration. The Act also provided
       for Department of Justice oversight to voter registration.

4)    What is meant by "Bloody Sunday"?

       "Bloody Sunday" refers to the day Alabama state troopers
       and local whites attacked the non-violent marchers, as they
        neared the Selmont area of U.S. Highway 80 and Kings
        Bend Road, leaving many of them bloodied and severely
       injured.

5)     What is "Tent City"?

       "Tent City" refers to a temporary dwelling used by
       approximately twenty African-American tenant farmers
       in Lowndes County, who tried to use their new right to vote
       and were evicted from their land by White landowners.
       Some of the families lived on this land, which was owned
       by African-Americans, in tents for as long as two years.