the civil rights institute

Today I had the life-changing opportunity to experience walking through Kelly Ingram park where kids my age protested for freedom and their demands were met with vicious attack dogs and water hoses with the pressure of 800 pounds. Walking through these memorials I saw the statues of police dogs and children that were more than willing to go to jail and wear the jail time as a badge of honor for their cause. I was very honored to have the opportunity to feel all the emotions that ran through me when I realized how much pain and suffering that people my age had to endure for me and my rights. I could not help but think what the parents of these kids were thinking, knowing that your child would be making history but at the same time it could of possibly cost them their lives. This was such and emotional experience for me and it made me think about how blessed I am am that I don't have to make any life-changing experiences like these and the people before me paved the way for me.