Court Square
Start where downtown commerce, movement history and the city grid meet.
SELF-GUIDED • 8 STOPS
Downtown Montgomery Photo Walk
A compact route through the places that make downtown visually and historically Montgomery.
Rosa Parks Museum
The bus boycott story begins here in a specific urban place.
Chris’ Famous Hotdogs
A living downtown institution with more than a century of local stories.
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
A central site in the organization of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Alabama State Capitol
The physical endpoint of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march.
Civil Rights Memorial
A Maya Lin-designed memorial and interpretive center.
Legacy Museum
A major contemporary institution interpreting slavery, racial terror and incarceration.
Riverfront Park
Finish where the river explains why the city existed here in the first place.
Do not rush the heavy places
Civil Rights WeekendThis is a photo walk, not a substitute for museum visits.
Use the route to understand the geography. Give the museums and memorials their own time.