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
Day 2: Atlanta
Steps: Atlanta
Priority visit: the neighbourhood, entirely dedicated to Martin Luther King, who was born and buried there.
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.
LORRAINE MOTEL & NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM
Day 7: Jackson
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.
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