Footsteps to Freedom:

Remembering the Road to Civil Rights (1954-1968)

"You cannot know where you are going until you know where you have been." The modern civil rights movement is a story of extraordinary people -- young and old, black and white, famous and unknown, Northern and Southern -- whose beliefs in freedom and equality led them to risk everything, including their very lives, to fight racism.  Nonviolent marches, boycotts, student-led sit-ins and freedom rides were met with cursing, clenched fists, baseball bats, billy clubs, attack dogs and powerful water hoses.  Yet, despite the insults and physical harm, these "foot soldiers" had the courage, determination and strength to seek "liberty and justice for all."
Atlanta Center University Historic Site, Atlanta	Daisy Bates House	Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections	Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site	Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma
Civil Rights Memorial Center-- Southern Poverty Law Center	Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University	Dexter Parsonage Museum and Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
First Baptist Church, Selma	Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, Atlanta	Lincoln Memorial
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site	Lorraine Hotel, Memphis	NAACP
National Civil Rights Museum	National Voting Rights Museum and Institute	Rosa Parks Library and Museum
Selma to Montgomery -- National Voting Rights Trail and Interpretive Center	Sixteenth Street Baptist Church	Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
Teaching Tolerance -- Southern Poverty Law Center	Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site	Voices of Civil Rights
We Shall Overcome:  Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement	West Park (Kelly Ingram Park)	F. W. Woolworth Building, Greensboro, NC