6/27/2017 - Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument

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On 6/27/2017, my mom and me went to Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument located in Birmingham, Alabama.  For this park there are seven stops.  We stopped at three of them.  They were the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Kelly Ingram Park.

The first stop that we went was the 16th Street Baptist Church.  This is a beautiful church.  We got to go inside and see it.  We heard the history of this church.  On September 15, 1963, there was a bombing that killed four black girls.  It was a act of the white supremacist terrorism. Four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite with a timing device at the front of the steps of the church.




The girl's names were Addie, Carol, Carole, and Cynthia.  Rest In Peace


We went down to the basement of the church and a saw gallery of pictures of the riots that happened in the 60's.  While we were there, I remember a lady talking about the riots that happened, and she found a picture of herself in a crowd.

After the church we went to a museum where you can find out information about the Birmingham Civil Rights.

This is Rosa Parks.  In December of 1955, she sat in the section for the colors on a bus.  When the white color section was full the driver asked her to move out of her seat in the color section for a white passenger.  She didn't move.  She got arrested.  They call her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement."



Here are some of the statues that they had at the museum.




This is what the classroom looked like in the 50's and 60's.


Black classroom


White classroom

Across the church and the museum there is Kelly Ingram Park.  There are different statues of people.  Here are the couple that I saw.


Here is a statue of the four girls that killed at the church.


Martin Luther King Jr.

"The Fight for Civil Rights"


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

Here is my layout for this park.










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