Alabama Civil Rights Sites
Alabama, United States
Churches, private houses, hotels, and other buildings across the state of Alabama played a key role in the development of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s.
Witnesses to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
During the mid-twentieth century, U.S. Civil Rights activists organized boycotts, prepared for marches, and took shelter from anti-Black violence in the places that make up the Alabama Civil Rights Sites.
While some of these sites have been converted into museums, many have not received the same recognition, despite their significant role in the struggle for racial equality in the American South and across the country.
Our Work
Awareness and Oral History
The Alabama Civil Rights Sites were included on the 2018 World Monuments Watch to spotlight the local efforts of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and encourage further stakeholder engagement.
After naming this group of heritage places to the Watch in 2018, WMF collaborated with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium on Voices of Alabama, a digital oral history project capturing the stories of these places. The initiative shines a new light on many of the lesser known but no less significant places that played a key role in the African American struggle for equality.
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World Monuments Watch
Through the World Monuments Watch, WMF collaborates with local partners to design and implement targeted conservation programs—including advocacy, planning, education, and physical interventions in the historic built environment—to improve human well-being through cultural heritage preservation.
Our Supporters
World Monuments Fund's work on "Voices of Alabama," based on the Alabama Civil Rights Sites project, has been made possible, in part, by support from the Jack Shear/Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, The Educational Foundation of America, and Friends of Heritage Preservation.