WELCOME TO MONTGOMERY and SELMA, ALABAMA
In 1955, a seamstress named Rosa Parks captivated the nation by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. The world, the South and Montgomery have changed ever since. Visiting the region is like reaching in the soil to find the roots of ... More

CULTURAL SITES
Rosa Parks Museum, Library & Museum is constructed on the site of the old Empire Theater in front of the bus stop where Parks was arrested for keeping her seat in 1955. There is a marker ... More

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - MONTGOMERY TO SELMA
In 1954, a brilliant 24-year old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. On the same capitol steps where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy, Rev. King announced the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 ... More

HISTORIC SITES
Named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate general and U.S. Senator, the bridge is famous during the Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery where marchers were violently attacked ... More

PLACES OF WORSHIP
After the required visit to Dexter Street Baptist Church, make time for historic Holt Street Baptist Church, Mount Zion AME Zion Church in Montgomery and Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma ... More

RESTAURANTS and NIGHTCLUBS
There's plenty of Soul Food to go around, but you should try some of the local favorites such as baked chicken, Salisbury Steak, BBQ pork, chicken & dumplings, baked ham, turkey & dressing, meatloaf, liver & onion, fried fish ... More

ATTRACTIONS
Its hard not to visit the state capitol with mixed emotions, but you should, if only for historic reasons and as a yardstick to measure how far Alabama has come ... More

BLACK GENESIS OF MONTGOMERY
City founder Andrew Dexter, had earlier donated the hill at the top of Market Street (now Dexter Avenue) where goats grazed. The nickname “Goat Hill” remains today. Selma, located 54 miles west of Montgomery ... More

WORLD CLASS GOLFING
No serious duffer should miss the opportunity to go a round or two at Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill course of three completely different 18-hole layouts along the backwaters of the Alabama River ... More