Wednesday Photos in Montgomery & Selma

We visited the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery on Wednesday morning. The round black granite memorial (designed by the creator of the Vietnam Memorial) includes a time line of the movement and includes the names of 40 people that were martyred working for Civil Rights.
The back wall of the memorial includes a quote from one of Martin Luther King Jr's speeches that inspired the designer, "Until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." It's hard to tell here, but the entire memorial is covered in flowing water! Mike, Maria, Charles, and Moses posed for this picture.

In the afternoon we took a tour through Selma, AL. Here most of the team is pictured with our tour guide, Sam Walker. We are standing on the steps of Brown Chapel AME Church where voting rights marches including "Bloody Sunday" and the historic Selma-Montgomery march were organized.
After visiting the Voting Rights Museum and having a pretty intense experience at the Slavery Museum, we were led across the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Moses and Ahmed. This is the site where police marshals beat peaceful marchers seeking the right to vote. It was incredible to follow in their footsteps, literally, in that way. Still, I think the team enjoyed visiting the park at the other side of the bridge a bit more. It was a moment of beauty in the midst of a heavy day.

From Selma we drove 3 1/2 hours to Jackson, MS where we debriefed our earlier experiences and had a great BBQ dinner at the John Perkins Foundation.