The New National Memorial You Must See In Montgomery, Alabama

With the help of a few visionaries, Alabama's capital city confronts its past and lays claim to a promising future

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National Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Credit…Hector Manuel Sanchez via Southern Living

Search every city in the South, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a sliver of pavement more enriched by history—or laden with it—than Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. There's the Winter Building, once home to the Southern Telegraph Company, which tapped out the orders for Confederate troops to fire on Fort Sumter; Court Square, part of Jefferson Davis' inaugural procession route; the bus stop where Rosa Parks waited for a ride that sparked the Civil Rights Movement; the church Martin Luther King Jr. pastored—they're all here. You can stand on the steps of The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church and clearly see the state capitol steps that Dr. King was not allowed to ascend when he addressed the thousands of Selma-to-Montgomery marchers.

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