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Photo of low-income housing in Montgomery.
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State capitol building of Alabama.
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That’s
the building for the Southern Poverty
Law Center.
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The
building appears to be on stilts.
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This photo is of the bottom right of the
building.
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Now, photo
is panning left.
This
design is to prevent people from driving up
and bombing the place.
Security is very tight because
they were
bombed a few years ago, and they are threatened constantly by white
supremacist groups, etc.
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Across the street from the SPLC is their old
building, which has been converted into a Civil Rights
Museum.
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In front of
the memorial designed by Maya Lin.
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“… until justice rolls down like waters
and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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The last exhibit in the museum, where you can add
your name to the “Wall of Tolerance.”
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In case
you cannot read the photo:
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WALL OF TOLERANCE
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The wall of
tolerance
records the names
of people who
have pledged to
take a stand against
hate, injustice, and intolerance.
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Those who place
their names on the wall
make a commitment
to work in their daily lives
for justice,
equality, and human rights –
the ideals of
which
the Civil Rights martyrs died.
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If you are
prepared
to work for these
ideals and to
stand against
hate and intolerance,
add your name to the wall.
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“Few will have the greatness
to bend history itself, but each of us can work
to change a small portion of events,
and in the total of these acts will be written
the history of this
generation.
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Is is from numberless diverse acts of
courage and belief that human
history is shaped.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth
a tiny ripple of hope.
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And crossing each other
from a million different centers of energy
and daring, these ripples build a current
that can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance.”
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- Robert Kennedy
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In the SPLC, a pair of white supremacist shoes
is on display. Scary.
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Lunch at Filet and Vine, a local butcher/wine
shop with a deli counter.
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Michelle had a fried pork chop, squash casserole, and
corn casserole.
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Tammy had
fried chicken, mac ‘n cheese, and yam souffle.
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Julia had baked chicken, veggies, and tomatoes
and okra. The portion sizes were huge—that’s half a chicken!
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Jocelyn
opted for the 4 side plate:
mac ‘n
cheese, mustard greens,
tomatoes and okra, and
blackberry cobbler.
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Seeing Tammy off at the bus station, before
she returns to Atlanta.
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The headquarters of the Christian
Coalition, about a block away
from the Southern Poverty Law
Center.
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For such a loud and
irritating national organization,
its headqarters was a sad little building. There were
sheets hanging in some of the windows in lieu of curtains; very ghetto
fabulous.
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On the road from Montgomery,
Alabama, to Mississippi.
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On the highway from Montgomery
to Jackson, MS.
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The route goes through Selma; this billboard was just outside
the city.
It would be a sad day for Southern cuisine if the slogan on the billboard were true—KFC, the best
chicken in town?
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Historic Selma bridge; unarmed civil rights protesters
marching from Montgomery to Jackson were
attacked
without warning while
crossing this bridge.
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We’d
never seen this type of pawning business before—
you can pawn the title of
your car. There were like 6 of these places
on the same street in
downtown Selma.
L
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Jocelyn and family friend Dr. Kelly Seid, whom
we met up with
in Meridian, Mississippi.
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The restaurant we went to was called
“The Happy Heifer.”
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Jocelyn
and Michelle as happy heifers.
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Kelly asked for something “light,” which
apparently in Mississippi
means
deep-fried oysters wrapped in bacon.
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Jocelyn had an oyster po’ boy and
“white trash taters,” which
was basically a baked potato smothered
in lots of stuff.
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Michelle had some sort of spinach dip
variation—this one was crab and shrimp dip. Cholesterol-tastic!
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