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Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
Selma, AL
The 54-mile trail commemorates the 1965 Voting Rights March led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. The march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday galvanized the nation and led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Counter-Narrative
The myth this site refutes: that civil rights were granted by government. They were extracted through sustained, organized sacrifice.
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Sources
National Park ServiceNational Voting Rights Museum
Before & After This Era
← Before · Great Migration
→ After · Contemporary
Sites in Conversation
"Both connected to Martin Luther King Jr. & John Lewis"
"Both connected to Martin Luther King Jr."
"Both connected to Martin Luther King Jr."