History at Its Source

Historical marker location:

Huntsville, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from Church Street Southwest south of Clinton Avenue West.)

Huntsville Water 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.