BCRI galleries and exhibitions take you on a journey through the past toward a vision for the future.
< Visitors can touch the cell bars behind which Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a "living institution" which views the lessons of the past as crucial to understanding our heritage and defining our future. Through its permanent exhibitions, it captures the spirit and courage of countless individuals who, in the 1950s and 1960s, dared to confront the bigotry and racial discrimination of American society.
