The National Voting Rights Museum & Institute II
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The National Voting Rights Museum & Institute II is a museum in Alabama, at a modelled elevation of 34 m. Perry Mountain stands 208 m to the north, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Builders of Movements and Monuments, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Black Belt Nature and Heritage Trail runs past it. 72 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.
The story
The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, established in 1991 and opened in 1993, is an American museum in Selma, Alabama, which honors, chronicles, collects, archives, and displays the artifacts and testimony of the activists who participated in the events leading up to and including the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, and passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as well as those who worked for the African-American Voting Rights and Women's Suffrage movements. As the museum describes in its mission statement, it recognizes other people, events, and actions which furthered America's Right to Vote since "the Founding Fathers first planted the seeds of democracy in 1776." The museum was founded by Faya Ora Rose Touré and Marie Foster. It is located near the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On this bridge on March 7, 1965, voting rights marchers who left the city for a planned walk to Montgomery were beaten and clubbed by Dallas County posse and Alabama State Troopers, in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". They had passed into the county on a planned walk of 54 miles to Montgomery, Alabama's state capital. This treatment was nationally televised and covered by major media, arousing national outrage. After gaining federal protection from President Lyndon B. Johnson and a federal court order protecting their right to march, thousands of people left Selma on March 21, reaching Montgomery several days later. By then, they had been joined by thousands more, black and white, and 25,000 marchers entered the state capital to press for protection of constitutional voting rights. Later that summer the Voting Rights Act of 1965, introduced by the Johnson administration, was passed by Congress and signed by the president.
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Dates from 1991.
Wikidata Q17194311, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- On the Black Belt Nature and Heritage Trail
- On the Selma to Montgomery March Byway, National
72 named places within 25 miles
- Selma Voting Rights Monument and Park: 0.1 mi
- Songs of Selma Park: 0.3 mi
- Riverside Park: 0.3 mi
- Old Town Historic District: 0.6 mi
- Riverview Historic District: 0.8 mi
- Builders of Movements and Monuments: 0.1 mi
- Rev. Hosea Williams Sr.: 0.1 mi
- Selma Voting Rights Monument: 0.1 mi
- John Lewis: 0.1 mi
- Amelia Boynton Robinson & Marie Foster: 0.1 mi
- Kings Bluff: 2.8 mi
- Hatcher Bluff: 5.6 mi
- Cunningham Bluff: 8.9 mi
- Whites Bluff: 12.4 mi
- Jones Bluff: 14.3 mi
- Parker Mountain: 15.1 mi
- Cravey Hill: 19.2 mi
- Mount Baber: 20.0 mi
- Johnson Hill: 20.0 mi
- Morgan Hill: 21.4 mi
- Edmund Pettus Bridge: 0.2 mi
- Tabernacle Baptist Church Guided Tours: 1.3 mi
- Old Cahawba Archaeological Park: 7.6 mi
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church: 7.7 mi
- Old Depot Museum: 0.5 mi
- Joseph T. Smitherman Museum: 0.5 mi
- Sturdivant Hall: 1.0 mi
- Civil Rights Memorial Mural: 0.1 mi
- The Perry County Story: 0.1 mi
- Bloch Park Picnic Area: 1.2 mi
- Cahaba: 7.7 mi
- Cahaba River Preserve - Barton's Beach: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The National Voting Rights Museum & Institute II. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Mountain | N 8° | 208 m | 25.0 mi |
| Parker Mountain | NE 42° | 174 m | 15.1 mi |
| Wildcat Hill | S 186° | 143 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mount Baber | SE 146° | 108 m | 20.0 mi |
| Morgan Hill | SSW 195° | 95 m | 21.4 mi |
| Cravey Hill | ESE 101° | 81 m | 19.2 mi |
| Johnson Hill | ESE 113° | 65 m | 20.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:23 | 19:59 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:14 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:46 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 51 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 78 | 67 | 56 | 50 |
| Precip in | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Selma, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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