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| Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery |
In our trip to Montgomery, I enjoyed learning about Alabama's history and the racial divides and conflicts that afflicted our state for so long. One of my favorite parts of the trip was hearing the story of the Freedom Riders and their bravery. I thought it was amazing that they knew they would be met with brutal violence and persecution, but still made the decision to get on those buses and be the factor that helped push racial equality forward. They did not hand the responsibility to the next generation, or leave anything up to chance. They put their health and maybe even lives on the line in order to make a change in society, and did not let fear or hatred stop them from their goal.
I also enjoyed the Legacy Museum a lot, and was interested because they brought the history of racial injustice through slavery and segregation and tied it together with the hints of racism that we still experience today. They had a big focus on black prison inmates, and gave lots of stories and statistics to explain how blacks are still being treated unfairly in some modern cases. The timeline of racism in the U.S. was also a very interesting thing to see and think about.
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