If you can take your time visiting AL, you must go to Montgomery and visit each of the EJI Sites (4). Pace yourself and give yourself time to process these historical moments and information. We went as a family and took our young people (middle scho...
Equal Justice Initiative
Make sure you collect your Civil Rights Tour collective coin. Beautifully kept and maintained.
Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum
I mean THEE father of botany, peanuts, soy beans and sweet potatoes. Learn more about him and his history.
George Washington Carver Museum
This HBCU is #3 in the country and known for innovation, agriculture and sciences.
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This museum was incredibly moving as a woman. If you ever want to learn how gynecological practices were discovered or began or the enslaved young women (12-13 years old) were experimented on, make sure you visit.
Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology
The Edmund Pettus Bridge (Site of Bloody Sunday) is right next to it. We took our young people to learn about voting rights and see how instrumental young people are to our democracy.
National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
We ate lunch here before we began the tour of the Legacy Museum
Pannie-George's Kitchen Inc - Montgomery
If you’re intentional about experiencing all 4 sites, you won’t want to rush it. We did the sites over 2-3 days just to process what came up for us. Make sure to bring lots of water if you are out in the Alabama heat.
The Legacy Sites - Equal Justice Initiative
So many historical sites in Birmingham, AL to visit.
Birmingham
As a fellow Black urban farmer, Dominique and her husband at Fountain Heights Farm show the beauty of what is possible for agriculture in a historical and urban setting. From training to classes to the more value added products or just history lesson...
Fountain Heights Farms
I first visited the church that was bombed and 4 young Black girls lost their lives when I was in high school. Being able to take my children to experience the history for themselves was such an honor. It was also where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...
16th Street Baptist Church
Small but fiesty town that became the battleground for Voting Rights during the Civil Rights Movement.
