Positioned within the coronary heart of a metropolis that served as a civil rights battleground, this institute is a part of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, a set of vital websites from the period. Guests can expertise a rendition of a segregated metropolis within the Nineteen Fifties, look at a reproduction of a Freedom Riders bus, and see the door from the cell the place Martin Luther King Jr. penned his well-known “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”