Places To Go

Selma, Lowndes, and Montgomery

Visitor Centers

 

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  The Edmund Pettus Bridge

  Walk in the footsteps of John Lewis, Hosea Williams, and many others who were there on the day known as "Bloody Sunday"

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  Brown Chapel AME Church

  Brown Chapel was one of several vital gathering places in Selma for mass meetings during the voting rights movement

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  City of St. Jude Historic District

  On the 4th and final night of the march, this social services complex hosted several thousand people during the "Stars for Freedom" rally

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  Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

  This church was the backbone of the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott which heralded a new era of "direct action."

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  First Baptist Church in Selma, AL

  First Baptist Church played a pivotal role in the Selma Movement that helped lead to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.