2nd Civil Rights Stop

The Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama was amazing! We stood where Rosa Parks was arrested after getting off the bus. Inside the museum a time machine took us back through history to important times in the struggle for Civil Rights. We discovered the origin of Jim Crow and learned about important people and events during that time. For example: Dred Scott, Harriet Tubman, The Civil War, and Plessy vs. Ferguson.

The kids boarded this bus, similar to the one Rosa Parks rode in 1955, and they sat across the isle from her. On that infamous night 3 other African Americans were sitting in Rosa's row. They moved to the back of the bus, but Rosa calmly stood her ground. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, the first major event in the modern civil rights movement.

In 1961, a small group of black and white Civil Rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated south to test recent Supreme Court decisions outlawing racial segregation on buses and in bus terminal restaurants and waiting rooms. Adam and the kids are standing in front of a replica of the Freedom Rider's bus that was bombed outside Anniston, AL on Mother's Day 1961.