Things to do in Alabama Black Belt

Walk the 1851 Greek Revival statehouse where the Confederacy was formed and the 1965 voting rights march ended.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

Tour the brick church where Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor and helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

See the 1940 steel arch bridge in Selma where police attacked voting rights marchers on Bloody Sunday in March 1965.

Selma, AL

Walk beneath more than 800 hanging steel monuments naming victims of racial terror lynchings, county by county.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

See exhibits on Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest and the Montgomery Bus Boycott at the spot where she was arrested.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

Walk through immersive exhibits tracing American history from enslavement to mass incarceration, on a site where enslaved people were once held.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

Tour the Moton Field hangars where the Tuskegee Airmen trained, with a restored Link Trainer and exhibits on the cadets.

Tuskegee, AL

See the George Washington Carver Museum and Booker T. Washington's home, The Oaks, on the Tuskegee University campus.

Tuskegee, AL

An art museum in Montgomery, Alabama, with a collection spanning American, Southern regional, and Old Master works.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

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

Selma, AL

A 696-acre Alabama state park south of Auburn with a 26-acre lake, trails, and campsites.

Auburn, AL

State archives and history museum in Montgomery that collects and preserves records and artifacts about Alabama and its people.

Montgomery, ALTransit: reachable by public transit