Correspondent Tom Wilmer reports from Birmingham, Alabama. Join Charles Woods III, education programs manager at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, for a TED talk-style walking tour of the institute’s museum and adjacent Kelly Ingram Park. The park was the site of major protests in the 1960s, where attack dogs were unleashed and the city's then-police chief directed assaults on the protesters with high-pressure fire hoses.
The Civil Rights Institute is strategically located in the heart of Birmingham’s 4th Avenue Historic District, adjacent to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church—site of the KKK bombing in 1963 that killed four children—and Kelly Ingram Park. The District was designated as the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument on January 12, 2017.
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