Jacksonville will become part of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail in 2026 as the national trail expands to include new historic sites in Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Florida.
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail highlights pivotal people, places and events that shaped the nation’s civil rights movement, using place-based markers, education and storytelling to connect visitors to the streets, neighborhoods and institutions where organizing took root.
Launched in 2018, the trail now includes more than 130 churches, courthouses, schools, museums and other landmarks, primarily across the South, where activists challenged segregation in the 1950s and 1960s…