01 | Autor: 12 Unexpected History Trips
In anciently 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. began influential voting rights demonstrations that culminated in the 54-mile memorable march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital of Montgomery . Today, on the Selma to Montgomery Cortege Byway ( byways.org/explore/byways/2050/ratio.html ), visitors can follow the footsteps of the polite rights marchers by car, beginning in Selma at the Brown Chapel (410 Martin Luther Sovereign Street; 334-874-7897; visits by appointment), which was the headquarters of the voting rights crusade, and continuing on to the National Voting Rights Museum and Association (1012 Water Avenue, Selma; 334-418-0800; www.nvrm.org ).
The museum is at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bond, where the first Selma march was stopped on “Bloody Sunday,” Procession 7, 1965, by law enforcement officers who unleashed tear gas and billy clubs on protesters.
The damaged march began two days later, led by the Rev. Dr. King, who led 2,000 people from Selma to the bond, where he stopped to pray. The third and final march took lay on March 21, 1965, this time federally sanctioned and with the immunity of hundreds of federal agents and National Guardsmen ordered by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Drivers on the noteworthy byway can stop at the city of St. Jude, where
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