A recent message from Annie Evans of New American History encouraged educators to bring history alive in their lives with a spring break trip to a historic site. Although I’m now retired from teaching, I did that by visiting three amazing African American Legacy sites recently created by the Equal Justice Institute. 

The first site, The Legacy Museum, founded by Bryan Stevenson, originally opened in 2018 . An expanded version later reopened in a former cotton warehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, where enslaved people were forced to labor.

We walked to the museum through the Legacy Plaza across the street, a lovely flowered site where one can sit and enjoy statues of MLK, Rosa Parks, and John Lewis.