When you hear civil rights, your mind probably goes to Montgomery, Alabama, or Tulsa, Oklahoma.

You probably don't even think about Tallahassee, Florida.

And most people know the state's capital for college football, state politics, even a quiet place to retire.

But tucked on the south side of Tallahassee or over the train tracks, as my elders would say are places with deep and lasting roots in the civil rights struggle.

My name is Jasmine Sutherland and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we're heading to the hot spots of civil rights history in Tallahassee,

home to many memorials that preserve a powerful chapter of history.

More after this. It's hard to miss the Capitol building when you're in downtown Tallahassee.

It's a huge white building with stairs that look endless.

You have police presence alongside the building

and occasionally a few tourists, taking photos as if this were Taj Mahal.

I've been to the building countless of times,

whether it was to report on government news or for school.

And having lived in the city for three years,

I thought I was pretty familiar with the area surrounding the building. But until recently,

I'd never known that just a few blocks away from the center of the state's political universe

was a place honoring the city's contributions to Black history. The Tallahassee-Leon County Civil Rights Heritage Walk is at the intersection of North Monroe and East Jefferson.

The name isn't abstract. The Heritage Walk is literally a sidewalk, about 8 feet wide and 72 feet long.

The concrete has golden tent in features both text and story scenes engraved into the panels.

It was one of our larger projects for the time, so we were honored to be a part of it for that reason alone.

Phil Glacson is the project manager of Florida State University's mastercraftman studio.

It designed the sidewalk back in 2013.

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