Alabama was the site of various fundamental events in the American Civil Rights Movement. The tragedies and victories that took place in Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s awakened an entire community to the reality of racial inequality and hatred that affected African-Americans all over the country. Today, many of those battlegrounds have emerged into state-of-the-art museums that describe the stories within the movement. Now, you can experience the legacy of those who transformed history through the Alabama Civil Rights Movement. Some of the moves are:
1. Civilian Rights in Selma, Alabama
Alabama cities such as Selma and Birmingham all staged headline-grabbing freedom parades and rallies. In Selma, you can walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where marchers were attacked in 1965 and then, step inside the National Voting Rights Museum to learn about the movement's foot soldiers. Central along the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail on U.S. Highway 80 in Hayneville commands the county interpretive centre. This walk was the climactic event of the Selma voting powers movement.
2. Civilian rights in Montgomery
The modern public benefits march in Alabama burst into public consciousness with a single act of civilian disobedience by Rosa Parks in Montgomery in 1955. There's a memorial centre, contains exhibits depicting momentous events that occurred in the city. A wall of Tolerance allows visitors to sign a pledge to promote racial justice. Montgomery is also home to the Rosa Parks Museum, the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where the king exhorted and the Dexter Parsonage Museum. All are within a few sections of the visitor's centre. The public claims act transformed the city and the rest of the nation, ending a century of legal segregation and creating new chances for African Americans and others.
3. Civilian Rights in Birmingham
Birmingham is Alabama's most liberal city, also played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement, and 2013 will see numerous events commemorating this. A Civil Rights District involves Kelly Ingram Park at where parades were planned. A Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were killed, by a racist bomb. Across the street is the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the nation's most elegant Public powers museum. It has 58,000 square feet of archives, society meeting rooms, galleries, and exhibitions areas.
4. Civilian Rights in Tuskegee
Tuskegee Human & Civil Rights Multicultural Center tells earlier untold Public benefits stories about the First African American U.S. military pilots known as the 'Tuskegee Airmen' who flew with distinction during World War II. The national civilian rights museum has a collection of sections and structures relevant to the movement, gives a one-of-a-kind experience that traces public claims from the country's beginnings to the present day.
Visit the website www.visitmontgomery.com and find the history of America on Alabama's Civilian war battlefields and its beautiful antebellum mansions of a long-gone era. Alabama was also the birthplace of music greats, including the famous Hank Williams, clearly revered around the world as the king of Country music, and also that of Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. Explore more about the Alabama Attractions on our official website.
