Travel the routes that built us

The bus boycotts, the marches, the church basements where strategy was written by candlelight. This trail follows the Deep South spine of the movement and the businesses that fed, housed, and hid the people who walked it.

1. Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church

   Montgomery, AL1955

   Where a 26-year-old pastor was chosen to lead the bus boycott.

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2. 16th Street Baptist Church

   Birmingham, AL1963

   Staging ground for the Children's Crusade, and site of unspeakable loss.

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3. Edmund Pettus Bridge

   Selma, AL1965

   Bloody Sunday. Fifty-four miles later, the Voting Rights Act.

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4. Lorraine Motel

   Memphis, TN1968

   A Green Book-listed motel that became the movement's most solemn address.

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