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Alabama · the United States
In the destination Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma.
In the photo: Panorama of downtown Birmingham.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Largest city in Alabama, founded in 1871 as a center of iron and steel amid deposits of ore, coal and limestone. During the 1963 marches, the city centre became one of the symbols of the civil rights struggle. The civil rights district, the Sloss blast furnaces and the Vulcan statue atop Red Mountain are the main visits.
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The local experience
Museum and research center about the civil rights movement, facing Kelly Ingram Park, with galleries covering segregation through the 1963 marches and the door of the cell where Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous letter.
A 1911 Baptist church where four girls died in a 1963 bombing, facing Kelly Ingram Park, with sculptures that recall the marches of that year.
Blast furnaces that operated from 1882 to 1970 and were preserved as an open-air museum, with boilers, smokestacks and machinery from Birmingham’s industrial era.
A park on top of Red Mountain with a cast-iron statue of Vulcan, made for the 1904 World’s Fair, a local history museum and a viewpoint over Birmingham.
