Today we spent the morning in Montgomery AL. We toured the capital building, we then went to the Civil Right Memorial, and on to Dexter Ave King Memorial Baptist Church which was the only church King pastured. From Montgomery we backwardly traced the march from Selma to Montgomery. In Selma we went to the Voting Rights Museum, and then walked across the Edmund Pettis Bridge following the route the protesters did. It was powerful to be walking in their footsteps. After the Bridge we got a tour of Selma by Joanne Blackman Bland. From there we went to dinner and listened to her sister Lynda Blackman Lowery speak. It was an amazing experience. You can learn everything you possibly can, but it's not until you hear the event from someone who experienced it that it really hits you. I love hearing history first hand. It's the effect events have on people and how they react to what's going on around them that first made me interested in history. When I was fourteen I was trying to get out of Biology class, she was spending weeks in jail and getting beaten for just trying to get equal rights for herself.