Medgar Evers to Rosa Parks to the Red Tails — three states, three foundational stories
A west-to-east traverse of the deepest South, anchored on three Civil Rights and aviation-history sites that together tell the 20th-century African-American freedom struggle. KJAN Jackson, Mississippi: the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument preserves the modest brick split-level where NAACP field secretary Evers was murdered in his driveway June 12, 1963 — the home is now NPS, designated in 2020. East 200nm to KMGM Montgomery, Alabama: the densest cluster of Movement sites in America, from the Rosa Parks Museum at the bus-stop where she refused to move (December 1, 1955), to MLK's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church five blocks east, to the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice with its 800 hanging columns naming 4,400+ documented lynching victims. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is 47 miles west at Selma. Continue 35nm east to KCQF Cliff Hare / Lee County in Tuskegee: Moton Field is the original training airfield of the Tuskegee Airmen — preserved as a National Historic Site, with restored hangars and a P-51C Mustang in Tuskegee Airmen red-tail markings.