Stay : The fight for civil rights

This itinerary will allow you to follow the major events that marked the fight for civil rights in the US during the years 1950-1960. Duration: 12 days - Total distance: 1 700 km.

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Detail of the stay : The fight for civil rights - 11 days

  • Atlanta
  • Atlanta
  • Atlanta
  • Birmingham
  • Birmingham
  • Birmingham
  • Birmingham
  • Birmingham
  • Memphis
  • Memphis
  • Memphis
  • Oxford
  • Memphis
  • Jackson
  • Jackson
  • Jackson
  • Montgomery
  • Selma
  • Montgomery
  • Montgomery
  • Montgomery
  • Selma
  • Montgomery

Day 1: Atlanta

Steps: Atlanta

Arrival in Atlanta.

Day 2: Atlanta

Steps: Atlanta

Priority visit: the neighbourhood, entirely dedicated to Martin Luther King, who was born and buried there.

Day 3: Birmingham

Steps: Atlanta, Birmingham

The largest city Atlanta.

Day 4: Birmingham

Steps: Birmingham

Continue the visit to Birmingham.

Day 5: Memphis

Steps: Birmingham, Memphis

Priority visit: National Civil Right Museum, which includes the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. Count 3 hours 30 from Birmingham.

Day 6: Memphis

Steps: Memphis

Continue the visit of Memphis.

Day 7: Jackson

Steps: Oxford, Memphis

On the road to Jackson, stop at Jackson, the State's capital, was an important centre for claiming civil rights. It takes 3 hours from Memphis.

Day 8: Jackson

Steps: Jackson

Priority Tours: Cofo Civil Rights Education Center and Smith Roberthson Museum & Cultural Center

Day 9: Selma

Steps: Montgomery, Selma

From Jackson, stop on the way in Selma, 40 miles west of Montgomery, where the Selma-Montgomery, where the peaceful march of May 1956 was suppressed in a cruel way by the authorities of the time (Bloody Sunday).

Day 10: Montgomery

Steps: Montgomery, Selma

It was in this city, the state capital, that the bus boycott was launched after Rosa Park's arrest on December 5, 1955. A few years later, in May 1961, the city was crossed by the Freedom Rides and experienced serious incidents. Martin Luther King was a pastor there and worked on many occasions for the civil rights struggle. Priority visits: Rosa Parks Library & Museum, Freddom Rides Museum, Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, Civil Right Memorial & Center, First Baptist Church, Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, Dexter Parsonage Museum. Allow 4 hours from Jackson.

Day 11: Return to Atlanta

Steps: Montgomery

It takes you 2 hours and a half from Montgomery.

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