Police Presence

Historical marker location:

Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is on 6th Avenue North west of 17th Street North.)

March Route to Government. Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail.

Alabama is home to several important civil rights landmarks, including the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was the site of a deadly bombing in 1963, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was the site of the "Bloody Sunday" confrontation between civil rights marchers and state troopers in 1965.