Welcome to Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip Map! This map was inspired by the journey Liberty, her friend Abdullah, and a group of other travelers take in Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip by Michael W. Waters and Nicole Tadgell. This book was chosen by the Mississippi Center for the Book to be featured during the Parade of States at the 2023 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

To learn more about Liberty’s journey, check out Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip at your local public library. For more information on the places Liberty visited during her travels, see below, or visit the United States Civil Rights Trail and the Mississippi Freedom Trail websites.

Medgar Evers Home Museum in Jackson, Mississippi

Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in Glendora, Mississippi

National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee

16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama

Dexter Parsonage Museum in Montgomery, Alabama

Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama