Racial Zoning

Historical marker location:

1 8th Ave W, Birmingham, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Center Street and 8th Avenue West, on the right when traveling south on Center Street.)

March Route for Fair Housing. 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.