The Fight for Civil Rights

On 6/27/2017, my mother and I went to the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument located in Birmingham, Alabama.  There are seven places that are part of this park.  We went to three of them on this tour.

The first spot we went to was the 16th Street Baptist Church.  We saw the inside of it.  It's very beautiful.  The tour guide told us about the church and what happened there in 1963.  In one of the pictures on my page is of four girls that were killed at this church.  We went to the basement and saw a gallery of pictures of all the riots that were around there.

The second spot we went to was Birmingham Civil Rights Institute building.  We went on a guided tour and saw so many different things.  People were not very nice to black people.  You saw how white and black lived, jobs and random things.

The person that I have a picture of is Rosa Parks.  They called her "The first lady of civil rights" and "The mother of the freedom movement"

This last place we went to was the Kelly Ingram Park, located across the street of the church and museum.  We didn't that much time to walk around but I did see Martin Luther King Jr and a statue of the four girls that got killed at the church.

Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)