Trailer | Voices of Alabama: A Civil Rights Oral History Project

Joyce O’Neal can still hear horses’ hooves on the steps of her church on Bloody Sunday. Nelson Malden recalls Martin Luther King Jr. stopping by his barbershop for a weekly haircut. Dr. Valda Harris Montgomery remembers more than 30 beaten Freedom Riders finding sanctuary in her childhood home.

“Voices of Alabama” tells these and other stories from 20 sites of worship, lodging, and civic engagement in Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma/the Black Belt that played significant roles in the African-American struggle for freedom—not just during the Civil Rights Movement, but beginning in Reconstruction.