Birmingham, Alabama. Next stop on our trip through the South. Stayed at Oak Mountain State Park just south of Birmingham.  Beautiful, wooded park with golf course, stables, demonstration farm, lakes, hiking trails.

Visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Powerful exhibits, history and photos/art representing the Civil Rights struggle. The Institute requested no pictures. We took the images/pictures with us from our experience.

Kelly Ingram Park....across the street from the Institute, a place of "revolution and reconciliation".

Martin Luther King

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, key leader in Civil Rights struggle in Birmingham

Four girls killed in bombing of church

Adjacent to the Institute and Park is the 16th Street Baptist Church where 50 years ago on September 15, 1963 tragedy struck as four young girls attending sunday school died when a dynamite bomb, placed under a stairwell by members of the Ku Klux Klan, exploded. One of the church deacons took us on a tour....

Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley

Special memorial gift from people of Wales, designed by John Petts

We were very moved by our experience at the Institute, Park and Church.  Leaving for Montgomery, Al....