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template: byway.jade
id: "2050"
name: Selma to Montgomery March Byway
distance: "54"
duration: Take one hour to drive or one day to experience the byway.
description: "Journey through history along the trail that marks one of the major historic events in 20th-century American history, the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Wind through the streets of Selma; pass through countryside where marchers spent the night on their way to Montgomery."
contact: "**[Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel](http://www.touralabama.org)**  \r\n 334-242-4494  \r\n 1-800-ALABAMA  \r\n\r\n**[Visit Selma, Alabama](http://www.selmaalabama.com/)**   \r\n 800-45-SELMA  \r\n [Send E-mail](mailto:mailto:info@selmaalabama.com)  \r\n\r\n**Selma to Montgomery March Byway**  \r\n 334-875-5894  \r\n [Send E-mail](mailto:lourettaWimberly@aol.com)  \r\n\r\n"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.alabamabyways.org"
    name: Alabama Byways
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/history/aahistory/"
    name: Celebrating African American History and Culture
  - url: "http://www.selmaalabama.com/"
    name: "City of Selma, Alabama"
  - url: "http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/"
    name: Civil Rights Museum
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/"
    name: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
  - url: "http://www.historicroads.org/"
    name: Historic Roads
  - url: "http://www.alabamabyways.org/"
    name: "Selma to Montgomery March Byway - Alabama Scenic Byways"
  - url: "http://www.nps.gov/semo/index.htm"
    name: "Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail "
designations: 
  - "All-American Road"
  - Alabama State Scenic Byway
states: 
  - AL
ll: 
  - -87.01783799999993
  - 32.414878999999985
bounds: 
  - - -87.01995099999999
    - 32.261688000000106
  - - -86.30126999999993
    - 32.414878999999985

---

Journey through history along the trail that marks one of the major historic events in 20th-century American history, the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. Wind through the streets of Selma; pass through countryside where marchers spent the night on their way to Montgomery.