Alabama State Capitol

For 150 years the Alabama State Capitol has overlooked downtown Montgomery from its hilltop setting. This National Historic Landmark is a working museum of state history and politics. The Confederacy began in the senate chamber when delegates from southern states voted to establish a new nation in February 1861. A little more than a century later in the spring of 1965 the Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights culminated at the capitol steps. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made one of his greatest speeches to an estimated 25,000 people. The Alabama State Capitol is now recognized as an official destination on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail along with more than 100 locations across 14 states.

By the River Center for Humanity is located one block east of the Historic St. James Hotel. Our entrance faces the Alabama River and the beautiful Riverfront Park Walk. The Riverfront Park Walk offers you a wonderful opportunity to snap a couple of breathtaking pictures of the magnificent view of the Alabama River and the Historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. By the RiverCenter for Humanity is a “mixed-use” creative incubatordeveloped to provide for local performers and artisansa showcase to promote their talents, arts, crafts and merchandise.We offer to the public presentations, workshops, exhibits, performances, demonstrations, documentaries, specialty tours and interactive experience. “Soul Prints of Our Ancestors and Ourselves” is an interactive dramatization that enable participants to gain a greater understanding of the embedded trauma of the Middle Passage and slavery.This is included in your ticket, but you must call ahead to book this special event during your visit.