sankofa day 5
so today we went to the National Civil Right Memorial, National Voting rights museum, Edmund Pettis Bridge,and Brown Chapel. The edmund pettis bridge is where Jim Clark unleased the police, horses and dogs on the marchers, it turned out to be a major turning point in the civil rights movement. Brown Chapel is the church where the marches would start. It is a very powerful church for the christian faith.
A couple things we need to know more about are the current hate groups. check out http://www.splcenter.org/ for more info.
the history of voting rights. it is a crazy history of how starting in the 1900s we took away the right to vote from african americans.
today we also went through a reenactment of the slave trade. I have a lot of feelings to work through so i will blog about that next week.
here are a few pictures of the day click here and here
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