I went to Montgomery for one specific museum and ended up getting so many different, awesome experiences that just kept popping up left and right. One of these treats was the Civil Rights Center. I literally walked down a street and happened upon it. I walked in and no one was there to take my money, so the security guard told me to just go through and I could pay when I finished. I went in, and discovered that it was a really well organized center. The first thing I did was watch a video on the Civil Rights Movement and the 40 people who died between 1954-1968. It was a really gut-wrenching, but moving, story. I think a lot of times it’s easy to hear about this issue in a history book, and we think that it is just a thing of the far past or something we don’t understand completely. But watching videos or hearing the stories of the brutality placed on others for any reason at all, but in this case, the color of their skin, was hard to watch and eye-opening. After watching the video I went into the room pictured above. From that window you […]