Detail: Sunny Paulk, Selma to Montgomery March, 2015, mural
Overview
Please join us in exploring art related to protest and racial justice located downtown and in West Montgomery. This post features works grounded in key historical moments—such as the one we are living in—including public art and works on display in partner organizations.
Lynching in the United States, 1877–1950
Bus Boycott, 1955
Court Square
Clydetta Fulmer’s statue of Rosa Parks boarding the bus
Rosa Parks Library and Museum
Artis Lane’s bust of Rosa Parks; Image courtesy Rosa Parks Museum
Rosa Parks Library and Museum
Erik Blome’s statue of Rosa on the bus; Image courtesy Rosa Parks Museum
Freedom Rides, 1961
Freedom Rides Museum
210 S. Court St.
Nora Ezell, Freedom Riders May, 1961; Image courtesy the Alabama Historical Commission
Related to Selma to Montgomery March, 1965
St. Jude
2048 W. Fairview Ave.
Barrett Bailey and Jon Cook’s statue of Voting Rights Marchers
St. Jude
2048 W. Fairview Ave.
Timothy Schmalz’s Homeless Jesus/Jesus the Homeless
Located behind St. Jude
2048 W. Fairview Ave.
MMFA’s youth murals Remembering the March
Mount Zion AME Zion Church
657 Holt St.
Cottage Hill Roundabout at Goldthwaite Street
Barrett Bailey and Jon Cook’s statue of Voting Rights Marchers
Montgomery St. facing Lee St.
Sunny Paulk’s mural
Legacy of King/Civil Rights Movement in Alabama
South Perry St. and Washington Ave.
The dream catcher portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
RSA Pavilion Park
361 Monroe St.
Lawrence Godwin’s relief about the Civil Rights Movement
King Memorial Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
454 Dexter Ave.
John Feagin’s mural; Image courtesy Montgomery Advertiser
Civil Rights Memorial Center
400 Washington Ave.
Maya Lin Civil Rights Memorial; Image courtesy Tolerance.org, SPLC
National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture at Alabama State University
1345 Carter Hill Rd.
Civil Rights murals designed by John Feagin
Rufus A King Library
3095 Mobile Highway
Bill Ford’s Civil Rights murals
Today
Court Square
Juneteenth Art on the Square Project created by I Am More Than, King’s Canvas, and 21 Dreams, 2020; Image courtesy Montgomery Advertiser
Related Programs + Events
Art of the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery
Saturday, July 18, 2020
10:00 AM
