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MontgomerySelma

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Narrated by The Historian Focus: Civil Rights History 82 km · about 54 min · 10 stories

US-80 west from Montgomery runs the 1965 march route in reverse. This drive covers the strategy behind nonviolence, the Selma organizers who built the movement years before the cameras came, Amelia Boynton Robinson, and the bridge named for a Confederate general that became the movement's proving ground.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Montgomery, Alabama

    The Legacy Museum in Montgomery

  2. 2
    Montgomery, Alabama

    The Evolution of Nonviolent Strategy Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Montgomery, Alabama

    The Evolution of Nonviolent Strategy Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Lowndesboro, Alabama

    The Evolution of Nonviolent Strategy Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Lowndesboro, Alabama

    The History of Lowndesboro

  6. 6
    Hayneville, Alabama

    The Grassroots Backbone of Selma Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  7. 7
    Tyler, Alabama

    The Grassroots Backbone of Selma Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  8. 8
    Tyler, Alabama

    The Grassroots Backbone of Selma Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  9. 9
    Selma, Alabama

    Amelia Boynton Robinson's Leadership

  10. 10
    Selma, Alabama

    The Edmund Pettus Bridge

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.