Our first place to visit on this trip was Birmingham, Alabama. We went to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, which is a museum and much more. We spent three hours there and were totally drained. It tells the story of the battle for civil rights. The only thing that I can compare it to is the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
Across from the museum is the Kelly Ingram Park, the site of large scale demonstrations during the civil rights era. There is a statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and several statues depicting scenes from the demonstrations: the water cannons 
which were trained on the children and the dogs that were allowed to threaten and terrify the demonstrators. There is a monument to the children who were jailed: on the jail, upside down, is written "segregation is a sin" and across from the jail are statues of the children
who vowed they would turn the jails upside down.
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