Day Two: Travel to Montgomery, Alabama

Drive approximately 170 miles north to the capital city of Montgomery. There you can relive the Civil Rights era as you explore the following attractions:

Civil Rights Memorial 400 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL (334) 956-8200 or www.splcenter.org. Water flows over table inscribed with names of those who died during the modern Civil Rights Movement. Wall inscribed with excerpt from Book of Amos quoted in historic speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks Museum 252 Montgomery St., Montgomery, AL (334) 241-8615, (888) 357-8843 or www.tsum.edu/museum.New, state-of-the-art museum depicting events that started the bus boycott and early Civil Rights movement. Interactive, multi-media presentation. Affiliate of Troy State University. Open M–F 9–5, Sat. 9–3.

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
454 Dexter Ave.  (334) 263-3970 (fee) or www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al7.h...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., used the pulpit of this church to lead the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycotts, which ignited the civil rights movement. Steeped in history, this church, where Dr. King served as pastor from 1954 to 1960, was also the site of many civil rights meetings during that era.

 

Martin Luther King home 315 Jackson Street (334) 261-3270
Martin Luther King's residence from September 1954 to February 1960.