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Showing posts with label Museums. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Rosa Parks Museum
We took a trip to Montgomery during Bryans vacation. Our reason was to visit The Rosa Parks Museum. It's a new museum that was built about 8 years ago and in 2005 they added a new children's wing to it. Rosa Parks was at the opening of the museum but she had passed away by the time the children's wing was complete. All of the kids were excited but Emmy was especially excited because this past Spring she read and studied Rosa Parks.
This was her favorite book that she read on Rosa Parks and she took it with her so that she could read parts of it aloud to us on the drive down to Montgomery. She read the section about the Montgomery Bus Boycott to us.
The Rosa Parks Museum sits in the exact spot that the bus sat in 1955, that Rosa Parks refused to get off of. This is what sparked the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott. Emmy found it pretty exciting to be in the very spot that she had read about in her books.
This sign may be hard to read but it says.....At the bus stop on this site on December 1, 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to boarding whites. This brought about her arrest, conviction, and fine. The Boycott began December 5th, the day of Parks trial, as a protest by African-Americans for unequal treatment they received on the bus line. Refusing to ride the buses, they maintained the Boycott until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration of public transportation on year later. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Boycott, the begginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
We went to the children's wing first. We had no idea what to expect and to be honest we just assumed it would be a small typical museum. Boy, were we surprised! We payed our entry fee and then a lady walked out and started talking to us. She told the kids they were about to get into a time machine and travel back in time to meet some very special people. Some double doors opened and we entered a room that had floor to ceiling movie screens on the right and left and in between them in the center of the room was a bus. We were told to board the bus which had a robot in the drivers seat. We were the only ones on the bus so we were able to sit anywhere we wanted. They then showed us a movie on the huge screens to each side of us that we watched through the bus windows. A lady appeared on the screen who would be our narrator and she began our journey by first telling the bus driver to take us back to the 1800's. We learned about a handful of African Americans that stood up against the injustice to them long before Rosa Parks was ever even born. The movie was so incredibly interesting and Bryan and I learned a lot of new things through it. I was unfamiliar with many of the people that the movie covered. Every time the movie traveled ahead in time the bus felt like it was starting up and moving and the screen made it look like we were zooming through time. The kids LOVED it! It was very cool! I wish I could show you some pictures to show just how cool it all was, but they didn't allow photography inside. The movie ended in history right before Rosa Parks protest on the bus. We exited the bus and our guide then took us upstairs to what they called their research room.
I was allowed to take a photo in this room. As you can see their are displays set up all around the room on people that played a role in the civil rights movement. Their were many that Bryan and I had never heard of. Growing up in California, our history lessons only briefly touched on this time in American history. It was very interesting to learn so much more the people and events of that time. One story that really touched my heart was of a white pastor who while in seminary felt a strong conviction from God regarding how African Americans were being treated here in America. He began studying slavery and racism throughout history and concluded that what was happening to Africa Americans was in many ways similar to what had happened to the Jews and others throughout history. He made up his mind that he would help in any way he could and he did. He played a huge roll in Montgomery in standing up for the rights of African Americans. I had never even heard of the mans name. Eventually after having his house bombed numerous times and his own family threatened he was run out of town. He moved up north but continued to do whatever he could from a distance to help those who were suffering. We learned about several other ladies who long before Rosa Parks refused to get off of the bus, had stood up themselves in situations of their own. They suffered consequences much like Rosa did. One of the things our guide shared with us was that these other ladies were much younger than Rosa Parks when they took a stand. It took an older woman like Rosa being arrested to really get the people stirred up with emotion and willing to finally take a stand for the injustice that was happening.
We spent a good hour and a half in the research center and could have spent much longer. They had computers with videos of interviews from people that played a part in the civil rights movement. You could do research on the computers as well. We still had the other side of the museum to tour though so we headed on over from the Children's wing to the Rosa Parks Musuem. As we arrived we were lead into a room with seats and several large tv screens on the walls. We watched a short video which picked up where the video on the bus in the Children's wing left off. The video had actual photos from the 50's taken around Montgomery. When the video was complete, some double doors opened and we entered a room that had another bus in it. This time we stood outside the bus looking in. Each of the windows in the bus was actually a tv screen but it looked just like a bus window. The room was set up to look like a bus stop, benches and all. The room went dark and we were suddenly watching people board the bus and we could hear them talking to one another. It was really well done.....as if you were standing outside of a real bus looking through the windows as people were boarding. It showed how African Americans had to pay their money and then get off of the bus and board the bus again through the back door. We learned by the way that sometimes mean bus drivers would take off before African Americans could get back to the back door and board the bus again. This broke my heart! We watched as Rosa Parks boarded and took her seat. Eventually the seats on the bus were filled and more people kept boarding. African Americans automatically went to the back to stand but when more whites boarded the bus African Americans were automatically expected to get up from their seats and go to the back to stand with everyone else. Rosa Parks had been on her feet all day and was very tired. She was also very tired of being treated so badly and felt as she should, that these bus laws were wrong. We watched as she refused to get out of her seat. The bus driver called the police and they showed up and boarded the bus and arrested her. She was incredibly polite through the entire situation. She spoke very few words. She just refused to give up her seat.
At that point the lights went back on and another set of double doors opened. We entered a room and were suddenly standing outside of Martin Luther Kings church in Montgomery. We could hear him preaching inside. We listened and were treated to some songs from his choir as well. We then entered the church and this took us into the rest of the museum. Throughout the museum were tv displays where we could watch short videos to go along with what we were reading. The videos had testimonies from people within Montgomery and the Movement. It was really amazing to realize just how fast the bus boycott was organized and just how many people turned out for the first meeting regarding the boycott. Their were 5000 people that showed up that night and this was on a 2 days notice. Those that ran the buses thought that the boycott would only last a few days, possibly a week at most. They never dreamed it would last for over a year! Shoe repair sales went up in Montgomery signifigantly during that year. Their were also displays set up in the museum that reminded me of a wax museum. The people seemed so real! We learned that some of the local African American churches came together and bought several cars to use as a taxi service for the elderly and anyone else that needed it. A local drugstore was a pick up and drop off spot for the cars. Many whites that were in support of the boycott would also stop and offer rides to African Americans when they saw them walking. At one point an elderly lady in her 80's was late to the drugstore one morning and all of the cars had left by the time she got their. One of the men told her that she should just go ahead and ride the bus for just that one day since everyone knew her and knew that she was in support of the boycott. He said one day wouldn't matter. She refused and said that as long as everyone else was walking she was going to be walking too and that you couldn't pay her money to board any bus!
Again, I wish so much I had pictures to share because I can hardly do justice to the museums in my descriptions. Once again though- pictures were not allowed inside.
Bryan and kids outside of the museum
These were all along the outside wall of the museum.
This one depicts the drugstore that African Americans went to in order to get rides from the church cars.
The very last display in the museum was of bus seats and showed African Americans sitting beside whites. It was a very powerful display after having gone through the whole history of the movement throughout the museum. I really can't recommend this museum enough. Our family visits a lot of museums and this was the most well done one that we have ever been in. The displays are incredibly interactive and also incredibly powerful. You will not be able to walk through the experience of this museum without your heart aching and your eyes feeling the sting of tears. If you are ever near Montgomery, Alabama.....I would recommend making a trip to the museum!! Be sure to give yourself a good 4 hours, maybe longer to see it all and be sure and visit both the children's wing and the museum. I would recommend starting with the children's wing as we did.
Here's a few more pictures from the area that the Museum is in.
Across from the museum.
The museum is located downtown on the Davis college campus and from 11-2 every day during the week you can ride the trolley to any local restaurants for free. Their are quit a few fun places to eat downtown too!
We decided to eat at O'Charleys because kids eat free! ;-) Normally it is one kids meal free per every adult meal ordered. At this O'Charleys though they do every kids meal free!! It was a fun surprise!
The kids were excited to see these paintings that are shown here behind Emmy, around the restaurant of Martin Luther King Jr. and others from the civil rights movement.
Typical! LOL!
I bought a book (of course- LOL) in the Rosa Parks Museum that I want to share about but this post has already taken me several days to write out so I am going to save that for another post. ;-)
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.....Acts 17:26 KJV
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
~Romans 10:12 KJV
This was her favorite book that she read on Rosa Parks and she took it with her so that she could read parts of it aloud to us on the drive down to Montgomery. She read the section about the Montgomery Bus Boycott to us.
The Rosa Parks Museum sits in the exact spot that the bus sat in 1955, that Rosa Parks refused to get off of. This is what sparked the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott. Emmy found it pretty exciting to be in the very spot that she had read about in her books.
This sign may be hard to read but it says.....At the bus stop on this site on December 1, 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to boarding whites. This brought about her arrest, conviction, and fine. The Boycott began December 5th, the day of Parks trial, as a protest by African-Americans for unequal treatment they received on the bus line. Refusing to ride the buses, they maintained the Boycott until the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration of public transportation on year later. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Boycott, the begginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
We went to the children's wing first. We had no idea what to expect and to be honest we just assumed it would be a small typical museum. Boy, were we surprised! We payed our entry fee and then a lady walked out and started talking to us. She told the kids they were about to get into a time machine and travel back in time to meet some very special people. Some double doors opened and we entered a room that had floor to ceiling movie screens on the right and left and in between them in the center of the room was a bus. We were told to board the bus which had a robot in the drivers seat. We were the only ones on the bus so we were able to sit anywhere we wanted. They then showed us a movie on the huge screens to each side of us that we watched through the bus windows. A lady appeared on the screen who would be our narrator and she began our journey by first telling the bus driver to take us back to the 1800's. We learned about a handful of African Americans that stood up against the injustice to them long before Rosa Parks was ever even born. The movie was so incredibly interesting and Bryan and I learned a lot of new things through it. I was unfamiliar with many of the people that the movie covered. Every time the movie traveled ahead in time the bus felt like it was starting up and moving and the screen made it look like we were zooming through time. The kids LOVED it! It was very cool! I wish I could show you some pictures to show just how cool it all was, but they didn't allow photography inside. The movie ended in history right before Rosa Parks protest on the bus. We exited the bus and our guide then took us upstairs to what they called their research room.
I was allowed to take a photo in this room. As you can see their are displays set up all around the room on people that played a role in the civil rights movement. Their were many that Bryan and I had never heard of. Growing up in California, our history lessons only briefly touched on this time in American history. It was very interesting to learn so much more the people and events of that time. One story that really touched my heart was of a white pastor who while in seminary felt a strong conviction from God regarding how African Americans were being treated here in America. He began studying slavery and racism throughout history and concluded that what was happening to Africa Americans was in many ways similar to what had happened to the Jews and others throughout history. He made up his mind that he would help in any way he could and he did. He played a huge roll in Montgomery in standing up for the rights of African Americans. I had never even heard of the mans name. Eventually after having his house bombed numerous times and his own family threatened he was run out of town. He moved up north but continued to do whatever he could from a distance to help those who were suffering. We learned about several other ladies who long before Rosa Parks refused to get off of the bus, had stood up themselves in situations of their own. They suffered consequences much like Rosa did. One of the things our guide shared with us was that these other ladies were much younger than Rosa Parks when they took a stand. It took an older woman like Rosa being arrested to really get the people stirred up with emotion and willing to finally take a stand for the injustice that was happening.
We spent a good hour and a half in the research center and could have spent much longer. They had computers with videos of interviews from people that played a part in the civil rights movement. You could do research on the computers as well. We still had the other side of the museum to tour though so we headed on over from the Children's wing to the Rosa Parks Musuem. As we arrived we were lead into a room with seats and several large tv screens on the walls. We watched a short video which picked up where the video on the bus in the Children's wing left off. The video had actual photos from the 50's taken around Montgomery. When the video was complete, some double doors opened and we entered a room that had another bus in it. This time we stood outside the bus looking in. Each of the windows in the bus was actually a tv screen but it looked just like a bus window. The room was set up to look like a bus stop, benches and all. The room went dark and we were suddenly watching people board the bus and we could hear them talking to one another. It was really well done.....as if you were standing outside of a real bus looking through the windows as people were boarding. It showed how African Americans had to pay their money and then get off of the bus and board the bus again through the back door. We learned by the way that sometimes mean bus drivers would take off before African Americans could get back to the back door and board the bus again. This broke my heart! We watched as Rosa Parks boarded and took her seat. Eventually the seats on the bus were filled and more people kept boarding. African Americans automatically went to the back to stand but when more whites boarded the bus African Americans were automatically expected to get up from their seats and go to the back to stand with everyone else. Rosa Parks had been on her feet all day and was very tired. She was also very tired of being treated so badly and felt as she should, that these bus laws were wrong. We watched as she refused to get out of her seat. The bus driver called the police and they showed up and boarded the bus and arrested her. She was incredibly polite through the entire situation. She spoke very few words. She just refused to give up her seat.
At that point the lights went back on and another set of double doors opened. We entered a room and were suddenly standing outside of Martin Luther Kings church in Montgomery. We could hear him preaching inside. We listened and were treated to some songs from his choir as well. We then entered the church and this took us into the rest of the museum. Throughout the museum were tv displays where we could watch short videos to go along with what we were reading. The videos had testimonies from people within Montgomery and the Movement. It was really amazing to realize just how fast the bus boycott was organized and just how many people turned out for the first meeting regarding the boycott. Their were 5000 people that showed up that night and this was on a 2 days notice. Those that ran the buses thought that the boycott would only last a few days, possibly a week at most. They never dreamed it would last for over a year! Shoe repair sales went up in Montgomery signifigantly during that year. Their were also displays set up in the museum that reminded me of a wax museum. The people seemed so real! We learned that some of the local African American churches came together and bought several cars to use as a taxi service for the elderly and anyone else that needed it. A local drugstore was a pick up and drop off spot for the cars. Many whites that were in support of the boycott would also stop and offer rides to African Americans when they saw them walking. At one point an elderly lady in her 80's was late to the drugstore one morning and all of the cars had left by the time she got their. One of the men told her that she should just go ahead and ride the bus for just that one day since everyone knew her and knew that she was in support of the boycott. He said one day wouldn't matter. She refused and said that as long as everyone else was walking she was going to be walking too and that you couldn't pay her money to board any bus!
Again, I wish so much I had pictures to share because I can hardly do justice to the museums in my descriptions. Once again though- pictures were not allowed inside.
Bryan and kids outside of the museum
These were all along the outside wall of the museum.
This one depicts the drugstore that African Americans went to in order to get rides from the church cars.
The very last display in the museum was of bus seats and showed African Americans sitting beside whites. It was a very powerful display after having gone through the whole history of the movement throughout the museum. I really can't recommend this museum enough. Our family visits a lot of museums and this was the most well done one that we have ever been in. The displays are incredibly interactive and also incredibly powerful. You will not be able to walk through the experience of this museum without your heart aching and your eyes feeling the sting of tears. If you are ever near Montgomery, Alabama.....I would recommend making a trip to the museum!! Be sure to give yourself a good 4 hours, maybe longer to see it all and be sure and visit both the children's wing and the museum. I would recommend starting with the children's wing as we did.
Here's a few more pictures from the area that the Museum is in.
Across from the museum.
The museum is located downtown on the Davis college campus and from 11-2 every day during the week you can ride the trolley to any local restaurants for free. Their are quit a few fun places to eat downtown too!
We decided to eat at O'Charleys because kids eat free! ;-) Normally it is one kids meal free per every adult meal ordered. At this O'Charleys though they do every kids meal free!! It was a fun surprise!
The kids were excited to see these paintings that are shown here behind Emmy, around the restaurant of Martin Luther King Jr. and others from the civil rights movement.
Typical! LOL!
I bought a book (of course- LOL) in the Rosa Parks Museum that I want to share about but this post has already taken me several days to write out so I am going to save that for another post. ;-)
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.....Acts 17:26 KJV
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
~Romans 10:12 KJV
Saturday, August 22, 2009
McWane Center Part 2
Camden loved the dinosaur exhibit
Nattie the weather lady
Shark and Ray touch tank
Their is a giant eel in this aquarium
Water tank
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