A friend & I, traveling in Birmingham, decided to "risk it" on the strong reviews for this 3-hour tour - & now we're adding our "Amen"! Clay, of Red Clay Tours, gives a riveting tour of Black/White Birmingham and surrounds. He told us that he prepared his knowledge base by reading 8 hours a day every day for 6 months. Using fact laid on fact, & story laid on story, he built our understanding of the history, climate and events leading towards and through the desegregation & Voter's Rights movements of the city. The stories of Rev. Shuttlesworth, of the Children's March, of Dynamite Hill, of 16th Street Baptist and of Eleanor Roosevelt's visit left us deep in thought and grateful for what he had given us. If this topic interests you, Clay's tour is a "must". The next morning we visited the Birmingham CR Museum & 16th St. Baptist. We left B'ham frankly astonished at how inadequate our personal educations had been.