OTHER PLACES TO CELEBRATE THE
THE HISTORIC MARCH
{Pictured: Atlanta Crypt, Sweet Auburn]}
You’ll find the crowds will not only be in the Washington DC for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of MLK historic March on Washington, but there are crowds meeting in other cities that are great places and city sites..
Atlanta, GA
Here a person can get a view of the Martin’s birthplace and also his burial site at the church ground. There is a 22 acre Martin Luther king National Historic Site which includes his boyhood home and you can tour the “I Have a Dream’ World Peach Rose Garden.
Montgomery Alabama:
Crowds pour into Montgomery were Dr. King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery. Tours of the church and a Civil Rights Memorial where one can pay respects to those who participated in marches during the period and are remembered. Get a tour also of the Montgomery Historic Trail where many marchers were beaten and tear-gassed and ended up at the popular steps of Alabama State Capitol 600 Dexter which is down the street from the church.
Birmingham, Alabama:
There may be crowds celebrating in Birmingham, AL . Catch up with them going to the 16 Street Baptist Church where Dr. King helped organized boycotts and protests. You can see the Kelly Ingram Park and this place has the church where the four little Black girls were killed by a bomb attack. This is also where crowds can find The Civil Rights
Institute and see the chronicles of the civil rights movement. And by chance there’ll be crowds strolling along the Kelly Ingram’s park view of Dr. King’s statue and the series of sculptures of events that took place there. Exciting!
Washington, DC
You get to be in the be crowd as thousands flock to the anniversary March on Washington celebrating 50 years. This place has all year events including the National Mall where the “I Have a Dream” was said by Dr. King in 1963. Touring around you can reflect on the MLK Memorial in Potomac Park. There’s more of course as you’ll be among speeches and visitors from all over the globe.
Memphis, TN
In my hometown you can crowd up to The Civil Rights Museum and see the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where Dr. King was assassinated. Tour the Museum inside and get a brush of history. Visit the bookstore, and buy a souvenir to take home. You can also tour the balcony and view room 306 which was Dr. King’s room during the time of visit of the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike. Crowds will need hurry the new expansion won’t all the room to viewed during the renovations soon to come until 2014. It’s hometown and celebrations will be among the crowds.
So, now you've got the scoop on other places to see your face in the crowd.
What’s going on in your places? If you’d like to share.. BE MY GUEST..
Posted By: MIISRAEL Bride
Friday, August 23rd 2013 at 2:42PM
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