Our final stop in Birmingham was the 16th Street Baptist Church, which is still in operation just outside of downtown.

This was the site of the horrific bombing that killed four girls in 1963, which you can read about here.

Here is the location on the side of the church where it happened, below.

Across the street in the park is a memorial to the four girls.

Around the corner is the Gaston Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King stayed when he was in Birmingham.

The jail cell where he wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail has been torn down, replaced with a new facility, but bars from that cell still survive.

It was dangerous work; the Gaston Hotel was also the site of a bombing.

Other sculptures commemorate scenes from the Civil Rights struggle.

The Civil Rights Museum was closed for renovation.