A CITY THAT CHANGED THE COUNTRY
Montgomery civil rights history
The sites are close together. The stories are not simple. Use this page as a hub before going deeper.
Bus Boycott
381 days of organization
A citywide campaign sustained by carpools, churches, workers and legal strategy.
Read →Dexter Avenue
Read the street itself
Court Square to the Capitol links multiple eras of American history.
Read →Voting Rights
The march reaches the Capitol
The 1965 route ends in Montgomery, not in a textbook abstraction.
Read →Public Memory
The Legacy Sites
Four sites connect enslavement, racial terror, segregation and present-day injustice.
Read →Give it time
2-day guideDo not try to “check off” Montgomery history in two hours.
The museums, memorials and streets work better as a connected journey.