Miles total: 2800
Today, we visited the Rosa Parks museum in Montgomery, and we met with the museum's Executive Director, Georgette Norman, while there. Then we went to see the state capitol, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (which King pastored when he moved to Montgomery), and the Southern Poverty Law Center. We also had an impromptu meeting with the director of the SPLC's Civil Rights museum. The small museum focuses on the violent deaths of those in the South during the Civil Rights movement, and it contains a wall of tolerance where visitors can pledge to end intolerance and add their names to the wall. Unlike the other sites, the SPLC has extensive security; the Klan torched their offices in the 1980s, and they still receive frequent threats of violence today. A couple of students have noted the SPLC site as one of their favorites.
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