We packed our bags, said good-bye to the good folks at Central Ministries, and worked out way west to Birmingham, site of so many important civil rights protests.  We visited the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four little girls were brutally murdered in a 1964 bombing.  We then toured Kelly Ingram Park, an area that was once off-limits to blacks.  It has now been turned into a park of reconciliation, and numerous sculptures show some of the more horrifying aspects of Birmingham's past.  From there we walked to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a stunning museum that shows how the movement for human rights extends from Birmingham and the South to the entire world.  That night, we stayed with the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at their camp in Miles College.

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