Civil Right Journey

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There is an experience in everyone's life that changes them in a positive or negative way. This change can happen at any point and it might not even be realized till after it happened. I was fortunate enough to have a positive change at a young age. An experience that I knew going in could have the possibility of changing my life. The experience that I am talking about is the Civil Right Tour. Spring, my freshman year, I am sitting in the auditorium of Wisconsin Lutheran High School listening to a group of upperclassmen talk about a free trip that they just came back from called the Civil Rights Tour. They are mentioning all the places they went to, the things they learned, and the people they met. Some are showing pictures of themselves …show more content…
Myself and two other of my friends were given spots on the trip. I was so excited and could not believe it. From there we had our first group meeting to see who was all going on the trip and to go through the basic itinerary of the trip. I knew a few other people well, while others I barely knew their names. I knew coming into the trip that we would have small assignments to get us ready for the trip before we left and that we would have a couple meetings about it also. As I was getting closer to our departure date and the more meetings we had, the more excited I …show more content…
We directly went to the Swan Household, that was where the Hunger Games was shot for many scenes. We also saw Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, church, and his tomb. We stayed in Atlanta for two nights and three days, traveling to our next location on the third day. After Atlanta we traveled to different cities in Alabama. Our first city was Selma, Alabama where we walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge and visited Brown's Chapel. Our hotel for the night was in Montgomery, AL. It was a really cool looking hotel and we had a fun pool party when no other guest were in the pool area. The next day we went to Tuskegee Airport for a small day trip then back to Montgomery to see the Rosa Parks museum. Now next we went to Birmingham, AL that was the most life-changing and emotional part of the trip for me. Our first destination in Birmingham was Kelly Ingram Park. There they have many statues that convey a story of what happened in May of 1963. Many of the statues were of children, because the children stood up for their rights when their parents could not. It was hard to imagine what these children went through when they skipped school that day and took a stand. Along with Kelly Ingram Park was 16th Street Baptist Church where four girls died and one permanently blinded from a bombing that occurred on September 15, 1963. It was hard to hear