Montgomery
Final leg of
the journey
The 50.2 mile car ride from Selma to Montgomery was marked with historic signs commemorating the trail of the 1965 march for voting rights.
Once settled in, we made a few calls and connected with art collector and Gallery owner Marcia Weber. Marcia extended her southern hospitality and agreed to meet us at her Gallery to talk about some of our favorite self-taught artists and introduce us to some new folks. We spent the better part of the afternoon exchanging stories and going through the rooms of the gallery taking in all the art we could. Marcia knows many of the artists personally and gave us a real taste of the personalities behind the paintings and sculptures we love. Needless to say we could not resist giving some new works a new home.
The historical part of our tour ended with a driving tour to photograph popular civil rights sights and visit others. First stop, the Rosa Parks museum. The tour began with a brief video of people who remembered the bus boycott in Montgomery and informative talk by a museum tour guide. The museum opened to a bus exhibit and reenactment that took us back in time to the events that lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The museum was beautifully designed and the life-size figures, interactive videos and original documents from police arrests, correspondences from Dr. King and city leaders, news articles and photographs left us with a deeper understanding of the many foot soldiers and participants that worked together to end segregation on the Montgomery buses and planted seeds for future protests.
Montgomery Sightseeing....
Freedom Riders Museum
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
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