mlk memorial

Before this last visit I had been to the MLK three other times. I was going to try to cheat and use the pictures from my last visit, which was for a school project, but then I realized I went during the spring so there were flowers leaves and grass everywhere, pretty sure that was not going to work. so I went again and figure I was there anyway so I took a look around again. The very first visit I went on I did the entire tour of the house ect so I didn’t feel the need to do it again. But this has been my experience with the MLK memorial collectively over my four visits. Over the past couple years they have been remodeling it first with the initial walkway now they’re doing something on the side. I’m not too sure what. The first thing you come up to at the walkway is a statue of ghandi which on my first three visits I did not understand but on this last one I was reading one of the timelines and found out that MLK stayed in India for a bit of time to learn the non-violent ways of ghandi. Going into the main center is free and there is a lot to be seen. Though it is not very big through the videos and information on the walls there is a lot. One of my favorite things to look at are the responses in the books near the front. There are some really inspirational things then there are things that are just amusing. I don’t really get the display in the center. I understand it is showing a lot of different people but it is kinda creepy. On this trip I learned that the first African American college student to attend I think LSU was shot at an MLK march. This was at my last visit and not my first two but there is a new room on the right side with recordings from the assassination and other pictures. You are now allowed to take pictures in this room. Ive been to the MLK house and done the tour. You start at the fire station then go to the house and through the rooms the tour guide explains all of them. Then you go to Ebenezer church where it is thoroughly emphasized kids are not to touch anything. This cite ties in with the FLC in it represents an important part of our history. MLK was a major attribute to the civil rights movement. He was inspirational and showed the world violence and war is not the only way to change things.