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Day 3 Sunday, February 1 Deep South
Montgomery, AL → Jackson, MS

Short drive. The longest day.

247 miles
3.5 hr driving
5 stops
3 meals
Montgomery, AL → Jackson, MS
22 photos

EJI Legacy Museum first, then a ferry across the Alabama River to the sculpture garden — forty degrees, outdoor, you stay as long as you can. Bus back to EJI. Then drove to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice: 800 steel columns, one for every county where a lynching was documented, hanging from cables at eye level. You walk through slowly. There's no rushing it.

Left Montgomery on a country road west through Alabama. Came through Selma as the afternoon went grey. Into Mississippi, into Jackson after dark. Quick dinner. That was enough.

Highlights

  • EJI Legacy Museum, Montgomery
  • Ferry across the Alabama River
  • Sculpture garden — 40 degrees, outdoors
  • National Memorial for Peace and Justice
  • 800 steel columns. One per county.
  • Country road west. Through Selma.
  • Jackson after dark

Stops

  • EJI Legacy Museum

    Bryan Stevenson's archive. Takes time.

  • Alabama River ferry crossing

    From EJI to the sculpture garden

  • EJI Peace and Justice Memorial Park

    Sculpture garden — outdoors, 40 degrees, worth it

  • National Memorial for Peace and Justice

    800 hanging steel columns — one per county where a lynching was documented

  • Selma, AL

    Passed through on the country road west

Food

Breakfast
Elevation Convening Center & Hotel Big hotel breakfast before a long day
Snack
Gas station Road snacks. No time for lunch.
Dinner
Olive Garden Quick. Late. That was enough.

Stay

Best Western Plus Flowood Inn & Suites