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Trace the Selma voting-rights campaign: Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. May 2015
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Culture & heritage · Brown Chapel AME — Edmund Pettus Bridge — Selma Interpretive Center — Lowndes County sites

Trace the Selma voting-rights campaign

Walk the bridge and visit campaign sites on both sides of the Alabama River before following part of the march route toward Montgomery. The experience is structured as a deliberate route rather than a hurried photo stop.

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Walk the bridge and visit campaign sites on both sides of the Alabama River before following part of the march route toward Montgomery. Moving through Brown Chapel AME, then Edmund Pettus Bridge, then Selma Interpretive Center, then Lowndes County sites gives the visit a clear sequence and keeps the landscape, people or history connected to the activity itself.

Check current interpretive-centre access, avoid standing in traffic for photographs and remember that the bridge remains daily infrastructure. Use local Black-led interpretation and support Selma businesses. Confirm the live official calendar, access conditions and local safety advice before departure, reserve any capacity-controlled element and follow instructions from guides, rangers or site staff.

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