Birmingham, Alabama. This was ground zero for the civil rights movement in the 60s. Birmingham had tough segregation laws and this is where the people marched in protest until the jails were overflowing. Finally, the children started marching as well and they were met with police dogs and fire hoses. Children were imprisoned as well. The 16th Avenue Baptist Church was the focal point for organizing the protests and one Sunday morning, September 15, 1963 members of the Klu Klux Klan planted dynamite that blew up at 10:30 AM while children attended Sunday school on the other side of the wall. Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14) were killed. Sadly, this event was seen as a turning point in the struggle for integration and it was in July, 1964 that the Civil Rights Act was passed in to law.

Statue depicting the police dogs attacking protesters

Vintage Theatre

Monument depicting the kneel-in protest of clergy

16th Street Baptist Church

16th Street Baptist Church window, a gift from the people of Wales after the bombing

16th Street Organ

Monument honouring the 4 girls who died in the bombing, where the dynamite exploded

Rickwood Field, America's oldest
ballpark

Emily photo-bombing my picture of the vintage outfield fences at Rickwood Field

Rickwood Field