This video features photos and video footage from our civil rights trip. We dedicate this blog and this video to all of the Foot Soldiers whose names are often forgotten, but played a huge role by participating in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Montgomery: Southern Poverty Law Center
Since its creation in 1971, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been committed to finding and eradicating hate groups throughout the United States. Our visit to the SPLC headquarters made it clear that the fight for the equal respect of races, religions, sexual orientation, and more, is ongoing. While the center did show us a video focused on the Civil Rights and featured an exhibit honoring 40 martyrs of the movement, the biggest takeaway was its focus on hate and bigotry post-Civil Rights era.
The most interesting aspect of the center was the “Wall of Tolerance”, which we all signed, making a pledge to fight injustice.
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Civil Rights Memorial.
Montgomery: Rosa Parks Museum
The Rosa Parks story is one that most people know to be the start of the Civil Rights Movement, so this museum was considered to be a historical refresher for us.
Of course there was a video to begin the museum tour, which included interviews from Foot Soldiers from the movement who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. What was interesting about the interviews were the different reasonings for participating in the boycott. Some people refused to ride the buses because their parent’s did not, while others were just simply tired of being treated badly (similar to Rosa Parks’ reason). It showed that everyone had their own attachment to the movement. Although the video provided personal testimonies related to Rosa Parks, what was to come after the video was the most intriguing part of the visit.
Our tour guide as well as the museum’s realistic audio and video segments provided us with an interactive experience to learn about a topic that we were familiar with. Unfortunately we were unable to take pictures in the museum, but we were allowed to snap a few with the statue in the below photos.
Jensen posing with the Rosa Parks statue.
Cassidy posing with the Rosa Parks statue.
Doug posing with the Rosa Parks statue.
Hannah posing with the Rosa Parks statue.
The overall visit to the Rosa Parks Museum helped us gain more appreciation for the one who they consider to be the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.”
The Foot Soldiers 