The field trip to Birmingham yesterday (wednesday, 3/11/15) was, and I’m not joking, extremely good. It was awesome to go there and be in the place that actually change the history of the United States. The place where Black people demonstrated peacefully and ended segregation. I think it was really impressing to hear about the history of how a church can be the center of a great movement like this.
Also I liked about the church part of our trip that the presentation wasn’t like dry fact spitted out to a not-listening-audiences but that it was more interactive and like the guide said: “you can google all the facts about the civil rights movement but i tell you what you really need to know.”
The Museum was cool with the screen that went up after the introduction video was done and behind the exhibition began. But even more I was impressed by the number of pictures and quotes they had. Because those are way more effective than just a lot of text. The place in there that I spent most of my time was the place where they had a lot of quotes that were projected onto the wall and at the same time also read. I thought that was the most interesting part of the museum because it really reviews how people at this time thought about civil rights and black people. But where it also showed the contrast between the colors when one time a white person was talking and a black person “answering” to that quote.
The difference that I see between having all that in your own classroom and experiencing it there is that when you are not there it is so far away that it is too far away. you can’t get a connection to it until were there. And no matter what anyone would like to say this Field trips are necessary to understand the history of your own country and this alone is enough reason to do those trips.
