‘A TRUE LIGHT IN MONTGOMERY’
MONTGOMERY, ALA. — While the past can often have a dark stain on it, the city offers one special place that will uplift your spirits.
After visiting The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum, I headed over to Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church to learn where so much took place during the Civil Rights movement.
I was greeted with a hug from Brenda Colvin immediately as I entered. It was like I had come home to family.
Nothing much has changed from the days when Martin Luther King Jr. began his pastoral career there.
I had arrived late for the tour, which begins on the hour, but Colvin allowed me to join tour director Wanda Battle, who was in the middle of a tour.
The tour takes about an hour and Battle gave us a taste of Southern lovin’ by getting to know each one of us and asking for a selfie. Each tour includes her oral history of the building and of King, along with a little gospel singing.
She is a true light in Montgomery and understands the importance of the history of the Civil Rights movement, sharing that we should never forget the lessons that previous generations had to learn.