Civil Rights Landmarks

Updated June 26, 2019 | Infoplease Staff

Across the United States, places where the movement took shape

Alabama

• First African Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa
• Brown Chapel, Selma
• First Baptist Church, Selma
• Selma-to Montgomery, National Historic Trail & All-American Road
• City of St. Jude Historic District, Montgomery
• U.S. Post Office & Courthouse, Montgomery
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery
• Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery
• Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, Tuskegee
• West Park (Kelly Ingram Park), Birmingham
• Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham

Georgia

• Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, Atlanta
• Atlanta Center University Historic District, Atlanta
• Mount Zion Baptist Church, Albany
• Dorchester Academy Boys' Dormitory, Midway

Florida

• Lincolnville Historic District, St. Augustine
• Howard Thurman House, Daytona Beach

South Carolina

• All-Star Bowling Lane, Orangeburg
• South Carolina College Historic District, Orangeburg

North Carolina

• F.W. Woolworth Building, Greensboro

Virginia

• Robert Russa Moton High School,Farmville

Washington, DC

• Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC
• Mary Church Terrell House, Washington, DC

New York

• Paul Robeson Home, New York City
• Dunbar Apartments, New York City

Massachusetts

• William Monroe Trotter House, Dorchester
• W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite, Great Barrington

West Virginia

• Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House,Charleston

Kentucky

• Lincoln Hall, Berea College, Berea
• Whitney M. Young Jr. Birthplace,Simpsonville

Illinois

• Oscar Stanton De Priest House, Chicago
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett House, Chicago

Missouri

• Shelley House, St. Louis

Nebraska

• Malcolm X House Site, Omaha

Kansas

• Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka

Nevada

• Moulin Rouge Hotel, Las Vegas

Oklahoma

• Calvary Baptist Church, Oklahoma City

Texas

• Juanita Craft House, Dallas

Arkansas

• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Little Rock

Tennessee

• Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, Memphis
• Lorraine Hotel, Memphis

Mississippi

• Tougaloo College, Tougaloo