If you are visiting Birmingham, you do not want to miss the experience of this tour during your stay. Our tour guide Mike was knowledgeable about the history of Birmingham, the culture of the community, each of the pivotal events that brought about the civil rights movement and he also added a first hand perspective as a resident in the area during the years the events unfolded. The tour bus is comfortable, the tour covers a large portion of the city but also has many stops for walking around the places where each of the significant events happened. I am a person who also lived through the years of the civil rights movement, yet this tour gave me a new appreciation, a deeper and richer history of what happened and why it is so important to learn from our past. The experience of this tour cannot be found in text books, you kind of have to re-live it by seeing the sites and imagining what each of the moments brought to life on this tour must have been like. It gave me an appreciation for the courage and sacrifice that the civil rights leaders and participants contributed to making our country better for all.