After I finished walking around I decided to walk to the Freedom Rides Museum since I still had plenty of time left on the clock for my parking. It didn’t take as long as I thought it would to see the White House and the Capitol building. Along the way I passed by Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, which was only a few blocks from the Capitol. This was the place that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the pastor from 1954 to 1960. This is also where he directed the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
I finished in Montgomery a lot earlier than I had expected, so I decided to continue on to Jackson, Mississippi. The only thing I had planned on seeing here was the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Since I got there about an hour before they closed, they allowed me to enter for free. The museum is massive and it is actually 2 museums.
They also had more recent displays, talking about plantations and the Civil War. They didn’t go into a ton of detail about this, probably because the Civil Rights Museum does. It also had displays covering all the way up until today. Since I didn’t have a lot of time, I had to rush through them and I didn’t get to read everything. But it must take hours to go through everything for those museums! Since this was my only stop in Jackson, I continued across the state to my hotel for the night.
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