Monument to the Voting Rights Struggle
The National Voting Rights Museum is a small museum in Selma, Alabama that packs a large and moving historic punch. The museum serves to memorialize the struggle of southern African-Americans to gain fair voting rights and puts a special emphasis on the famous march which took place in Selma in the 1960's and the events leading up the the infamous "Bloody Sunday" affair.
The museum makes for a pleasant and informative (and rather short) visit and helps bring into clear and current perspective what, for many of us, is the distant past. The best part of the National Voting Rights Museum was our guide; he had lived through the voting rights struggle of the 60's and gave a lot of first-hand accounts and anecdotes which helped bring the story of Selma and the "foot-soldiers" alive for us.