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National Voting Rights Museum. The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to and including the 1965 Selma to ...
May 3, 2023 · The museum was constructed at the western terminus of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, notorious site of clashes between state and local police and civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery march.
Other stops include the National Voting Rights Museum, and the Civil Rights Memorial Park. Although it’s not on many tours, the Old Depot Museum’s Civil Rights Room is worth a brief stop to see the hospital logs recording the injuries of marchers on Bloody Sunday.
