Alabama: Touched By Rosa

Our first stop was in Montgomery, Alabama. What the hell is there to do in Montgomery you might ask. Answer- eat fried chicken

. …Aaaaand go to any and all of the Civil Rights museums/monuments. Shakespeare Park sounded interesting as well, but it was too damn hot to be outside. We went to the Rosa Parks museum located in Troy University. Anyone who gives a shit about history or revolution, even just a tiny lil’ terd, I HIGHLY recommend this museum. It was fascinating, impeccably designed, and as informative as it was entertaining. There’s an actual period bus inside with TV’s for windows showing a theatrical re-enactment of what really happened that day. You know, the one that Outcast sang about. (ah-ha hush that fuss, everybody move to the back of the bus) Now, I guarantee you, unless you did your college thesis on Rosa Parks, you probably don’t realize the all the beautifully intricate layers of effort, work, and patience that went into starting The Civil Rights. There was suffering, sure, everyone has heard about that. But there was so much more. And maybe you don’t think it has anything to do with you if you’re not black. Well, you’re wrong. I’m not a terribly sentimental person, but my eyes welled up a few times. These were truly magnificent souls who fought clean in a dirty war and raised the standards for American life. I was absolutely inspired. You can set this as an analogy for anything you care about, any task you want to accomplish, or any change you’d like to see in your life, big or small.

“Women who behave, rarely make history.” -Rosa Parks.

I bought a t-shirt that says this. I get a lot of compliments on it. 🙂

The next day we headed west, driving through Selma, the starting point of the the famous Civil Rights March.

how it looks today

what it looked like at the beginning of the march