Alabama Civil Rights Tourism Association

Rest in Power, Joanne Bland
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Easy read on the history of Voting Rights and Selma, Alabama.

March 6, 2024 Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, Black organizers in the Dallas County Voters League launched a drive to get Black voters in Selma registered. The Student Nonviole...

We welcomed a group of students from New England tonight at Bricklayers Hall.

Getting ready for TED Talk filming at Bricklayers Hall.

Thank you Franklin County! We are thrilled that you had a meaningful and transformational experience, and look forward to welcoming you again!

Never Forget the fight for the right to vote.

This day in Alabama history: Selma to Montgomery March On March 25, 1965, thousands of nonviolent demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., arrived at the capitol steps in Montgomery

Last October, the ACRTA was part of Alabama Tourism's familiarization tour for group travel planners, where we introduced planners from around the country to authentic experiences that connect with history in Marion and Selma.

Read about it on page 12, and contact us at [email protected] to plan an experience-filled journey into the civil rights movement for your school, church or civic group.

The Group Travel Leader January 2023 Find the 2023 Go South Tour Planner along with group travel ideas for Group-friendly Resorts, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in the January 2023 issue of The Group Travel Leader.

“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!' " MLK