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Heritage Tour Memorials

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The Civil Rights Freedom Wall of Perry County, Alabama
This Memorial pays tribute to all of the movement people in Perry County. We established this memorial in 2002.

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The Albert Turner, Sr. Marker
 
On March 7, 2004, Albert Turner, Sr. was honored for his leadership in Marion, Alabama, and bravery in the Bloody Sunday March of 1965.

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The Civil Rights Freedom Wall of the City of Selma, Dallas County, Alabama on the grounds of Browns Chapel Church
 
This memorial pays tribute to all of the movement people, in the City of Selma and all of Dallas County, Alabama.
 
 

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The Late Earl T. Shinhoster Memorial Marker
 
In 2001, we dedicated this marker in tribute to this international civil rights activist and former N.A.A.C.P. leader.  We were also responsible for the Tuskeegee, Alabama exit named for him on Highway 85 South.
 

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ROSA LOUISE PARKS MEMORIAL
Mrs. Evelyn Gibson Lowery unveiled, April 22, 2006
 
on the Campus of
 
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Joe A. Lee, President
 
915 South Jackson Street
Montgomery, Alabama

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The Marie Foster / Amelia Boynton
Memorial Marker
 
This memorial was dedicated on March 7, 2005, in honor of these two women who were voting rights leaders of the Selma-Montgomery March of 1965.

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CORETTA SCOTT KING
Memorial Monument
 
Unveiled September 8, 2007
Mt. Tabor AME Zion Church
on Coretta Scott King Memorial Highway
North Perry County, Alabama
 
 

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The Jimmie Lee Jackson Memorial Marker
 
Jimmie's death at the hands of Alabama State Troopers, led to the Selma-Montgomery March and the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act. We established this memorial in his honor in 1991.

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The Reverend James Reeb
Memorial Marker
 
In March, 2005, we unveiled a memorial honoring this Unitarian Universalist Minister from Boston. The memorial is located on Washington Street in downtown Selma, Alabama, marking the place where he was beaten to death while he was walking down the street.

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Viola Gregg Liuzzo, this brave civil rights heroine of Detroit, Michigan was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen, after the Selma-Montgomery March in 1965. Since Mrs. Lowery established and dedicated this monument in 1991, it has been defaced and vandalized many times. But it still stands strong and tall as a testimony to the promise that "We Shall Overcome!"

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The Reverend Hosea Williams Memorial
 
We established our first Freedom Park Memorial/Marker on March 3, 2002 in memory of this courageous leader in the Bloody Sunday March.

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The Reverend James Orange Marker
 
Reverend Orange was jailed as a leader in the struggle for voting rights in Perry County, Alabama, in 1965. We established this marker in 2002.

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The Congressman John Lewis Marker
 
On March 7, 2004, Congressman Lewis was honored for his leadership and bravery in the Bloody Sunday March of 1965.