Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center that depicts the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: 520 16th St N, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

A short walking distance from the Civil Rights Institute is the Fourth Avenue Historic District.

Done with the district and walking to the civil right institute

The building on the left is the Civil Rights Institute, and the building away is the historic 16th Street Baptist Church.

Across the street from the institute is Kelly Ingram Park.

In one corner of the park is the 16th Street Baptist Church.  In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls amid the Civil Rights Movement.

Detailed exhibits in the Civil Rights Institute reveal slices of black and white life in Alabama from the late 1800s to the present. A series of galleries tells the stories of daily life for African-Americans in the state and the nation and how dramatically different it was from the lives white people of that era took for granted. The powerful Movement Gallery presents the Civil Rights Movement for 1955 to 1963.