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From Enslavement through the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Virtual Walking Tour of Montgomery

  • COMMON POWER PO Box 51125 Seattle, WA 98115 United States (map)

This event will be virtual-only.

Join Dr. Terry Anne Scott as you walk with her through history on this virtual tour of Montgomery, one of the most historic and important cities in the American South and the country at-large. The virtual tour will begin at the banks of the Alabama River where enslaved people from the North and Upper South disembarked ships and trains to arrive in Montgomery, one of the biggest slave trading cities during the antebellum era. You will then journey through history, learning about emancipation, the Jim Crow era, convict leasing, and the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative. You will end near Dexter Avenue Baptist Church were 25,000 people walked in March 1965 during the completion of the Selma to Montgomery march.

All donations will support the work of the Institute for Common Power

www.commonpower.org/theinstitute

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