Footsteps of Freedom - A Civil Rights Journey

• Overnights in Lexington, KY, on depart and return; Atlanta, GA (2nights); Montgomery, AL; Birmingham, AL (2 nights)
• National Center for Civil and Human Rights guided tour
• Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site -

  You will begin at the Visitor Center then see the World Peace Rose Garden and "Behold Memorial". Next is the Ebenezer Baptist Church where you will hear recordings of Dr. King's speeches, watch a video and browse through the exhibits. Then stop at the Reflecting Pool to Dr. and Mrs. Kings graves and their eternal flame.

• The Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL -

   The Museum provides a comprehensive history of the U.S. with a focus on the legacy of slavery. Situated on a site where enslaved black people were forced to labor in bondage, the museum offers an immersive experience with cutting-edge technology, world-class art, and critically important scholarship about American history.

• National Memorial for Peace and Justice

  - Set on a six-acre site in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, the National Memorial is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.

• Rosa Parks Library & Museum
• Dexter Ave King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage Museum -

  In this National Historic Landmark, see the modest pulpit where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. first preached his message of hope and brotherhood. This church was also a center point of the Montgomery bus boycott. A large mural in the church depicts King’s civil rights

  crusade from Montgomery to Memphis. The restored parsonage of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church appears as it did when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family resided here during Dr. King’s pastorate from 1954-1960.

• Lowndes Interpretive Center - A visit to Lowndes Interpretive Center in Hayneville, Alabama, is a meaningful and educational journey through a pivotal chapter of the

• American Civil Rights Movement. Operated by the National Park Service and located along the historic Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, the center tells the powerful story of the 1965 march for voting rights and the struggles that took place in Lowndes County.

• National Voting Rights Museum

• Footprints to Freedom Tour with local guide in Selma, AL

• Walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge - You will have time for a quick and easy 10 minute walk back & forth across the Bridge. It still is an active roadway bridge with cars yet has a safe pedestrian walkway on both sides of the lanes. This famous Civil Rights landmark represents a pivotal point in Voting Rights as law enforcement officers attacked marchers with tear gas and nightsticks on “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965.

• Old Depot Museum tells the story of Selma, Alabama, and this history is one inherently woven with African American history and culture.

• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Here richly detailed exhibits reveal slices of black and white life from the late 1800's to the present. A series of galleries tells the stories of daily life for African-Americans in Alabama and the nation, and how it differed dramatically from the lives that white people took for granted

• Sixteenth Street Baptist Church - Just across the street from the Civil Rights Institute is the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. A National Historic Landmark, the church was the site of a dynamite bombing in 1963 that killed four young African-American Girls: Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae. (Tour as available)

• Kelly Ingram Park - A life-size sculpture in adjacent Kelly Ingram Park faces the church and captures the spirited nature of the young girls killed in the bombing. This historic park served as a congregating area for demonstrations in the early 1960’s, including the ones in which police dogs and fire hoses were turned on marchers by Birmingham police. The park has a free cell phone tour that guides visitors through the tumultuous events of 1963.

• Freedom Riders Museum - In 1961, groups of volunteers made history by challenging the practice of segregated travel through the South. They called themselves Freedom Riders as they crossed racial barriers in depots and on board buses.

• Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame - Alabama has produced some of the most notable jazz musicians in the country such as Nat King Cole from Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa’s Dinah Washington. The first piano blues solo ever recorded was played by Birmingham-born Clarence “Pinetop” Smith. Sun Ra, whose innovative work remains celebrated worldwide, was born and raised in Birmingham, and native Erskine Hawkins set the standard with his signature tune about Ensley, “Tuxedo Junction.” The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame honors these luminaries and more with exhibits that showcase their accomplishments.

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