The Civil Rights Movement: The Long March to Freedom
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Selma bridge — the lunch counters, courtrooms, schoolhouses, and churches where ordinary Americans stood up and dismantled Jim Crow.
15 narrated stories — read them here, or hear them all in the app.
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
Where a Young Pastor Met a Movement
A downtown Montgomery church became a cradle of national change.
International Civil Rights Center & Museum
When Four Seats Became a Movement
How students kept returning until one lunch counter changed the country.
Nashville
Diane Nash and the Discipline of Nashville
How Diane Nash helped turn nonviolence into change in Nashville.
Rock Hill
The Beating That Marked John Lewis
A brutal stop in Rock Hill that shaped John Lewis’s public life.
Birmingham
When Birmingham Forced the Nation to Look
Mass protest turned local confrontation into national political change.
Birmingham
The Man Birmingham Couldn’t Ignore
How Fred Shuttlesworth forced segregation’s defenders into a fight they wanted to avoid.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
The Bridge That Changed Its Meaning
A bridge named for the old order became a symbol of its undoing.
Jacksonville
From Jacksonville to the March on Washington
How A. Philip Randolph’s Jacksonville years preceded a life of organized protest.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
A Schoolhouse Built for Segregation, Remembered for Its Undoing
How Monroe Elementary became the setting for a constitutional turning point.
Robert Russa Moton Museum
When Moton Students Walked Out
A teenage strike helped push school segregation to the Supreme Court.
Little Rock Central High School
When Nine Students Faced a State
A schoolhouse crisis that became a test of federal authority and human courage.
Charlotte
When Charlotte Changed School Desegregation Nationwide
A local school fight that reshaped desegregation law across the country.
Baltimore
Where Thurgood Marshall Learned to Stand
A Baltimore beginning that shaped a civil rights giant.
Jackson
The House Where the Movement Knocked
How Medgar Evers turned a Jackson home into a front line of freedom.
Dougherty County
Albany’s Hard Lesson for the Civil Rights Movement
How Albany reshaped civil rights strategy through painful experience.
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