We invite you to celebrate Juneteenth with us at the Legacy Sites in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. All four sites will be open from 8:30 am to 6:30 pm on Friday, June 19. Admission is free and no tickets are needed.
Visiting the Legacy Sites on Juneteenth is a powerful way to honor the lives and memories of the 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America and celebrate their courage and resilience.
We created the four sites—the Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, and Montgomery Square—to take visitors on a journey through 400 years of American history from enslavement, racial terrorism, and codified segregation to current racial injustice.
Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site on the banks of the Alabama River, specifically explores the institution of slavery, the lives of enslaved people, and the legacy of slavery in this country. It has been hailed as an essential American experience to explore on America’s 250th birthday.
At its heart is the soaring National Monument to Freedom, which was dedicated on Juneteenth. Inscribed with 122,000 surnames representing millions of Black families, the National Monument forges a connection to the courage, strength, and resilience of formerly enslaved ancestors for tens of millions of descendants who have carried these names across generations and into the 21st century.
Our newest site, Montgomery Square, reminds us that racial injustice and threats to voting rights are not new—and can be overcome. From 1955 to 1965, Black residents with extraordinary courage and determination stood up against racial injustice here in Montgomery and sparked a movement that transformed our country and the world.
The site is dedicated to the decade of activism that started with the unprecedented and victorious resistance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and culminated in the signing of the Voting Rights Act. It honors the spirit, the lives, the courage, and the tenacity of those who worked together to change our nation.
On this Juneteenth, we hope you will join us in Montgomery to reckon with the history of slavery and honor the lives of generations of people who endured and persevered, who hoped and loved, in the face of tremendous hardship and suffering. We invite you to experience the power of confronting injustice in this place and share in our strong conviction that we’ve come too far to turn around now.