The Richard Arrington Jr. Resource Gallery serves as an interactive extension of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Archives Division, Education Division and the permanent exhibitions while at the same time emphasizing the larger mission of the Institute's civil and human rights focus. 

The gallery contains a combination of open and enclosed spaces designed to give visitors access to study areas, video viewing rooms, and computer stations.  A variety of different computer applications are complimented by a custom configured software package designed around the audio and video interview tapes of the Institute's ongoing Oral History Project.  The software runs over one hundred interview segments and includes various documents, photographs, newspapers, archival footage and other materials.  The Richard Arrington Jr. Resource Gallery contains twenty-nine computer systems that provide an interactive technology based educational experience to visitors who can access vast amounts of information on civil and human rights issues.