More to See and Do

The Legacy Sites and Selma are on the Itinerary. Montgomery holds much more. It is a walking city, and most of this sits within a mile or two.


Enslavement

  • Court Square: the fountain stands where Montgomery's slave trade was centered. EJI markers nearby trace how enslaved people were brought in and sold.
  • Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church: founded in 1877 on the site of a slave trader's pen. 454 Dexter Ave.
  • Old Alabama Town: an 1850s urban slave dwelling, by tour.


Resistance and justice

  • Rosa Parks Museum: on the site of her arrest.
  • Dexter Parsonage Museum: where Dr. King's family lived. 309 S. Jackson St.
  • Holt Street Baptist Church: where five thousand gathered on December 5, 1955. 903 S. Holt St.
  • Civil Rights Memorial and Center: Maya Lin's memorial. 400 Washington Ave.
  • Freedom Rides Museum: in the old Greyhound station.
  • Alabama State Capitol: where the Selma marchers ended.

In Selma

  • National Voting Rights Museum, by the bridge.