The Selma and Dallas County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Information is helping to promote tourism of Selma’s historic sites.
On Aug. 14, in cooperation with the Alabama Tourism Department and the Alabama Chamber of Commerce, an “On Sacred Ground” familiarization tour through the Student Tourism Association was held in which 32 operators toured the Selma Interpretative Center and Brown Chapel before lunch at White Force Cottage and moving on to Montgomery.
Sheryl Smedley, executive director of the Selma Chamber of Commerce said, “The purpose of the tour was for tour operators to become familiar with attractions to plan upcoming student educational tours.”
She said it was part of a three-day tour of Alabama including Birmingham, Selma Montgomery, Tuskegee and Montevallo.
Previously, on July 30, the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce and Selma Chamber of Commerce hosted a familiarization tour by 50 operators from the Alabama and Georgia Motor Coach Association to tour Sturdivant Hall, one of the South’s best and most beautiful Greek Revival antebellum Homes, the Jackson House Museum, Selma University, Tabernacle Baptist Church, the historic Brown Chapel AME Church, the Selma Interpretive Center, operated by the National Park Service and focused on the Selma to Montgomery Trail, and the National Voting Rights Museum regarding the struggle for voting rights.
According to the Jackson Foundation and Museum, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and civilrightstrail.com, the Jackson House became the official residence for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ambassador Andrew J. Young, Dr. Ralph Bunche and others planning the Selma to Montgomery March.
Tabernacle was the site of the first mass meeting of the Voting Rights Movement. Members included the Rev. John D. Hunter and Marie Foster who were two of the “Courageous Eight,” the steering committee for the Dallas County Voters League which invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma in 1964.
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