The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University hosts several annual exhibitions. Such exhibits include the artwork currently on display that documents Blacks’ struggle for the right to vote from the post-Civil War to 2000.

Additionally, the National Center exhibits a feature Selma, Alabama artist, Phyllis Park artwork on the “The Courageous Eight” (major leaders in the right to vote in Selma, Alabama from 1920s to the 1960s). Other artwork at the National Center includes Fred Ajanogna, the First African-American, and the art mural on the Women’s Political Council (an ASU-based activist group) by artist Vincent Morgan. The Journey to Freedom murals outside the National Center are a major attraction for visitors to this site. The Journey to Freedom mural was designed by John W. Feagin (an ASU graduate and a major force in artwork dealing with Montgomery, Alabama), completed from 2002-2014. The following artists helped to bring the mural project into existence: Vincent Morgan, Ricky N. Calloway, Cleve Webber, Lee A. Ransaw, and Robert O. Shealey. Other artists featured at the National Center Annex: Betsy Graves, Joseph Anthony Pearson, Charlotte Riley, Ray Batchelor, Aaron Henderson, and Basil Watson.