After we left beautiful Chattanooga, we headed to the Civil Rights mecca of Birmingham, Alabama. We crossed through Georgia into Alabama and arrived at sunset to the Civil Rights Institute, across the street from the famous 16th Street Baptist Church, the spot where the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls and galvanized the Civil Rights movement.
The three of us walked through the park which has a number of very moving and powerful sculptures. Just a few days short of Martin Luther King's birthday, it just seemed right.
Afterwards we drove to Vulcan Park and checked out the largest cast-iron statue in the world with a great vista of all Birmingham. We rode to the top and experienced what seemed to be a great bit of cold and wind (we learned better later...) to get a closer look. The model for the statue certainly appeared to have spent a good amount of time focusing his workout on his rear end.
After enjoying the sites, we left Birmingham to drive through Mississippi towards Memphis, Tennessee. More soon.
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