Civil Rights
Churches, bridges, and schoolhouses where the movement for equal rights was organised and contested.
Three landmarks across 3 states. Start with Edmund Pettus Bridge, Little Rock Central High School and Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park.
- Landmarks
- 3
- Period
- 1954–1968
Pictured Edmund Pettus Bridge
Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA · via Wikimedia Commons
The Landmarks
- Civil Rights
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, AL
A plain steel bridge over the Alabama River became one of the most sacred grounds of the civil rights movement.
Civil RightsLittle Rock Central High School
Little Rock, AR
In the fall of 1957, a grand Arkansas high school became the front line of the struggle to enforce the Supreme Court's promise of school desegregation.
Civil RightsMartin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Atlanta, GA
Along a few blocks of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta stand the places that made Martin Luther King Jr. and the places that now hold his memory: the house where he was born, the church where he and his father preached, and the reflecting pool where he and Coretta Scott King are entombed.