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National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, Selma, AL

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National Voting Rights Museum and Institute

A Selma museum that collects and displays artifacts and testimony from the 1965 voting rights marches and related civil rights campaigns.

6 US Highway 80 East, Selma, AL 36701 · Selma, AL

About National Voting Rights Museum and Institute

The museum sits in Selma's historic district near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the events of Bloody Sunday took place. It collects, archives, and exhibits materials tied to the Selma to Montgomery marches and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and also recognizes earlier and later efforts to expand the right to vote, including African-American voting rights and women's suffrage. Visitors can take a self-guided visit or book guided tours that combine it with the Slavery and Civil War Museum and other Selma civil rights sites.

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