Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Seneca Falls, NY

From this modest house at 32 Washington Street, Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a movement destined to change the world. From 1847-1862, Stanton's Seneca Falls home served as the headquarters of the women's suffrage movement.

Stanton tirelessly wrote, organized and lobbied ...

16th Street Baptist Church

In 1963, events at the 16th Street Baptist Church provided the world with a graphic illustration of racism in the American South. As leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)brought the fight for civil rights to Birmingham, the 16th ...

National Historic Landmark- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is associated with the Birmingham Alabama civil rights movement in 1963 in which two specific events led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Between May 2-8, 1963, participants of the nonviolent ...

National Historic Landmark- Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator

Essentially a large water tank 75' in diameter and 40' deep, this facility was designed to provide a simulated zero-gravity environment in which engineers, designers, and astronauts could perform, for extended periods of time, the various phases of research needed ...

National Historic Landmark- MONTGOMERY (Snagboat)

The steam-propelled sternwheel snagboat MONTGOMERY (1925) is one of a handful of surviving steam-powered sternwheelers in the country and is one of only two surviving Corps of Engineers snagboats.

Snagboats cleared the western rivers of countless obstructions and allowed the ...

National Historic Landmark- Ivy Green (Helen Keller Birthplace)

This ten acre site is associated with Helen Keller (1880-1968), author and lecturer. The property includes the cottage where Keller was born and the house where she spent her early childhood (1880-1888), and the water pump, site of the communication ...

National Historic Landmark- Government St. Presbyterian Church

Completed in 1836, Government Street Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest and least-altered Greek Revival style houses of worship remaining in the United States.

The building also illustrates one of the earliest estant religious usages in America of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Dexter Ave. Baptist Church

This small, eclectic-style church (1878) served as the original headquarters of the Montgomery Improvement Association, headed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), which carried out a successful boycott of segregated city buses in 1955.

"The National Register of Historic Places, ...

National Historic Landmark- Mobile City Hall

Completed in 1858 and built as a combination city hall and marketplace, this structure is an excellent example of the trend in 19th-century America toward structures combining more than one civic function.

Italianate detailing includes wide bracketed eaves and a ...

National Historic Landmark- Brown Chapel A.M.E.

Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Brown Chapel was the headquarters of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and the starting point of ...