Permanent Exhibits
PERMANENT EXHIBITS
Barriers Gallery
Separate water fountains, separate restaurants, segregated schools and buses symbolize the quality of life under segregation from 1920 to 1954.
Confrontation Gallery
The voices of Black and White individuals are heard depicting the climate of violence and intimidation that reinforced segregation during the Civil Rights Movement era.
Movement Gallery
The gallery takes visitors through the history of the Movement from 1955 to 1963 highlighting Birmingham’s Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Procession Gallery
Life-sized figures “walk to freedom” in this gallery that allows an outside view of Kelly Ingram Park directly across from the Institute, site of many protest demonstrations in the 1960’s.
Office of the Mayor
View mementos from the administration of Birmingham’s first Black mayor, Dr. Richard Arrington, Jr.
Human Rights Gallery
Included are interactive audio, video, and computer programs describing the international scope of the movement for human rights.
