The fight for civil rights
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Atlanta ?
The map of your stay "The fight for civil rights"
Detail of the stay : The fight for civil rights
How to get there - Atlanta
Atlanta
Steps: Atlanta
Priority visit: the neighbourhood, entirely dedicated to Martin Luther King, who was born and buried there.
Birmingham
Steps: Birmingham
The largest city Atlanta.
Places of interest : BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Memphis
Steps: Memphis
Priority visit: National Civil Right Museum, which includes the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. Count 3 hours 30 from Birmingham.
Places of interest : LORRAINE MOTEL & NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
Jackson
Steps: Memphis
On the road to Jackson, stop at Jackson, the State's capital, was an important centre for claiming civil rights. It takes 3 hours from Memphis.
Jackson
Steps: Jackson
Priority Tours: Cofo Civil Rights Education Center and Smith Roberthson Museum & Cultural Center
Places of interest : SMITH ROBERTSON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER COFO CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER
Selma
Steps: Selma
From Jackson, stop on the way in Selma, 40 miles west of Montgomery, where the Selma-Montgomery, where the peaceful march of May 1956 was suppressed in a cruel way by the authorities of the time (Bloody Sunday).
Montgomery
Steps: Selma
It was in this city, the state capital, that the bus boycott was launched after Rosa Park's arrest on December 5, 1955. A few years later, in May 1961, the city was crossed by the Freedom Rides and experienced serious incidents. Martin Luther King was a pastor there and worked on many occasions for the civil rights struggle. Priority visits: Rosa Parks Library & Museum, Freddom Rides Museum, Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, Civil Right Memorial & Center, First Baptist Church, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, Dexter Parsonage Museum. Allow 4 hours from Jackson.
Places of interest : DEXTER AVENUE KING MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH DEXTER PARSONAGE MUSEUM
