Today started as a rainy day in Montgomery...
Our first stop was the Rosa Parks Museum, which is a wonderfully done museum representing the "mother of the Civil Rights movement". Watching the reenactment was a powerful image of the power of standing up for your beliefs. The power of one life, which started a movement of the Montgomery bus boycott. The 13 month struggle to end the segregation on the city busses, which cost the bus companies $3000 a day. Powerful, inspiring ideas...challenging our students to think about what they believe in.
We traveled a few blocks to the Dexter Avenue Church, Martin Luther King Jr.'s first senior pastorate. To walk through his office, with original furniture, robe, and photos was amazing. To sit in the pews and listen to his words was inspiring for the students. To see the legacy of one life, and to think about their legacy...what life are they living.
From there we traveled to Atlanta...
Atlanta is like L.A. complete with traffic, high rises, busy streets, and lots of people. We had a tour do Atlanta seeing the sites of the Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, and the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. We visited Ebenezer Baptist Church the church Dr. king grew up in, his childhood home, and his grave site. We drove through downtown seeing the past railroads and their importance to the Civil War and Sherman's March to the sea. We saw the Olympic cauldron from the '96 games, Centennial Park, and the Olympic Rings.
After dinner we went to the top of the Westin hotel, the tallest hotel in the Western Hemisphere. A 72 story view of the city at sunset...gorgeous view.
The students are doing so great...we are proud of them and are constantly receiving compliments on their behavior. They have done well...learning a lot, processing a lot, and bringing a lot of pictures home.
Tomorrow on to Stone Mountain...then home.
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