Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail
The George Washington Carver neighborhood served as base camp for the votings rights movement during the tumultuous weeks of March 1965. These blocks of brick two-story homes—the city's first and largest federal housing project for blacks, built in 1951—were headquarters to many civil rights workers. Residents offered up spare rooms and cooked extra meals for strangers from out of town—many of them white—who joined the cause. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street was still unpaved Sylvan Street then. Expectant marchers stood here day after day in the dust and mud awaiting instructions from the movement's leaders.| HM Number | HM24EL |
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| Tags | |
| Year Placed | 2014 |
| Placed By | The National Park Service, Department of the Interior |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, January 6th, 2018 at 10:01pm PST -08:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16S E 498365 N 3586309 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 32.41385000, -87.01738333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 32° 24.831', W 87° 1.043' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 32° 24' 49.86" N, 87° 1' 2.58" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 334 |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling South |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 10 Clark Ave, Selma AL 36703, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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