This tour will take you to some of the most important sites that defined the Civil Rights Movement in America. From the pulpit where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached to the spot where Mrs. Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery City bus. Continue on to the Civil Rights Memorial center and many other sites related to the Civil Rights movement.

The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage is the church where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960 and began his quest for civil rights. In this National Historic Landmark, see the modest pulpit where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. first preached his message of hope and brotherhood. This church was also a center point of the Montgomery bus boycott. A large mural in the church depicts King’s civil rights crusade from Montgomery to Memphis.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. Founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. in 1971, the SPLC is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups.

Located in the Historic District of Selma, Alabama at the foot of the famous Edmund Pettus Bridge, the scene of “Bloody Sunday,” the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute is the cornerstone of the contemporary struggle for voting rights and human dignity.

To cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma, Alabama is to symbolically share in the momentous and tragic events of the Voting Rights Struggles that changed America by providing all of the citizens of its democratic society the right to vote. Named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general and U.S. Senator, the bridge traces the historic route of the Selma to Montgomery March in addition to being the focal point as a historic site of the Voting Rights struggles of the era of Civil Rights events and Bloody Sunday, when—on March 7, 1965—armed officers attacked some 600 peaceful civil rights marchers, forcing them back across the bridge with billy clubs and tear gas. The clash was broadcasted on national TV, creating a wave of support from citizens all across America that led to the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Explore Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, which was built for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics, and dance through its Fountain of Rings. From there visit Inman Park, the first-planned and most historic neighborhood in Atlanta and Grant Park, the oldest city park and home to the Zoo Atlanta. Then head to Atlanta’s midtown with its mix of rich history and architecture with modern skyscrapers and new upscale residential buildings.

A young boy grows up in a time of segregation…A dreamer is moved by destiny into leadership of the modern civil rights movement…This was Martin Luther King, Jr. Hear his story, visit the home of his birth, and where he played as a child. Walk in his footsteps, and hear his voice in the church where he moved hearts and minds. Marvel at how he was an instrument for social change.