my name is Bethany and I'm here just reflecting a little bit of my experience

Montgomery in the past just a few years of my life in the

I guess is led me here I grew up in Florence Alabama and

school there for all of my 12 years kindergarten through 12th grade

I went on a class trip to a Confederate Battle

foot in a Civil Rights Museum or any of the memorials and I

few of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks was tired that

was not until later in my life that I really started reconciling

with my own experiences my eyes were opened a lot

was out of college and back home in Florence on for a little bit during the summer

the other side of the river in Tuscumbia I went there as part of the protest

and horrified to see white robes in in modern-day

would have been 2008 2009 absolutely appalling in since then I've I have

a lot of books including and Brian Stevenson's book and have

the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum I visited the Memphis Civil Rights Museum and I'm today in

but after what I've visited the Dexter Avenue

I stepped outside and didn't realize how close it was to the Capitol and I walked up to the capital in

right in front of the the capital of Alabama was of Jefferson

her that we still have a lot of work to do and I look forward to to joining the

Storybooth Montgomery

Bethany