The Charlottesville Civil Rights Tour made Selma one of its stops for the fourth consecutive year as part of a series of trips to sites important to the Civil Rights Movement.Â
A post on social media by Selma Historical Tours by Thelma Dianne Harris said that the tour travels through the South, stopping at Birmingham, Montgomery, New Orleans, Jackson, MS; Sumner, MS; and Memphis, TN.
"The focus of this tour is the African American struggle for citizenship. Travelers learned about Black Americans’ post-emancipation political and cultural renaissance," said the post. "Reconstruction, as this post-Civil War period was called, was shaped by the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments. They were intended to strengthen the legal definition of citizenship for newly-emancipated African Americans."
The tour also made a stop at Reflections Coffee Shoppe where they heard from speakers Jackie Smith and Dianne Harris about their experiences during the Civil Rights Movement.Â
The tour visited Edmund Pettus Bridge and Memorial Park before concluding at the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute and Historic Brown Chapel AME and First Baptist churches.
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