Hotels in Selma

Beyond the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where history changed course on Bloody Sunday, civil rights stories unfold at the National Voting Rights Museum. The Selma Interpretive Center provides context for this pivotal chapter in American democracy. Antebellum mansions like Sturdivant Hall showcase architectural grandeur from another era, their columned facades telling complicated tales. Brown Chapel AME Church stands as a monument to courage, where marchers gathered before facing down violence for the right to vote. The Smitherman Building houses artifacts from multiple eras of this small city's outsized historical footprint. After touring these landmarks, local eateries serve soul food that comforts and sustains, just as it did for those who marched toward Montgomery and into history books.