Category: civil rights
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Day #5: Montgomery (Part II)
Before I jump into this blog, I want to share a quick story about Phyllis Brown, a woman I met on the course of this trip. Her older sister, Minnijean Brown, was among the nine who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. P. Brown joined us for two days on the…
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Day 5: Montgomery (Part I)
Another heavy day. At the Rosa Parks Memorial Museum, Montgomery Day Five | First Stop- Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) It is strange to call the center’s museum beautiful because of the pain that lies within history. However, the SPLC, aesthetically, is a beautiful museum. On the walls were the names and stories of civil rights martyrs.…
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Day 4 (Cont): Selma and Montgomery, Alabama
Our tour group with civil rights activist Joanne Bland Following our visit to the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), we continued day four with a visit to the Lowndes County Interpretive Center. This center is a smaller museum, yet again tells the powerful history of local people in Lowndes County, which sits between Selma and Montgomery,…
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Day 4: The Equal Justice Institute(Part I)
Photo taken by the group’s photographer. Itinerary: 9:00am Equal Justice Initiative 11:30am Lowndes County Interpretive Center 12:45pm Lunch @ Popeyes 1:30pm Tour w/ Ms. Joanne Bland 3:00pm National Voting Rights Museum and Institute (Didn’t go) 5:00pm Edmund Pettus Bridge and Viola Luzzo Memorial The day began with a rush to…
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Day 3: Albany, GA and Montgomery
It was my goal to blog once a day on the bus tour; however, each day was HEAVY and by the time we made it to our next hotel exhaustion set in. The tour officially ended on June 18th, but I made an effort to journal and keep notes each day. The next series of…
Diary of a Historian 