This is the new location of the National Voting Rights Museum. We took a personal tour of the museum with its main curator, and our very own Professor Dr. Bernard Lafayette– one of the original Freedom Riders of 1963, and the main organizer of the Selma Voting Rights movement. The museum has several excellent exhibits that span from the progression of Black political power and authority culminating in President Obama’s election, to actual KKK nooses and Robes to showcase the horrific truth of the Jim Crow South. There are staged recreations of Voting booths, the experience that the Freedom Riders had while imprisoned, and so much more. There are even actual clay casting of the Foot Soldiers that marched across the historic bridge, and Bloody Sunday. This is an awesome place, it must be remembered and supported– I became a member after this visit.
