So I am a bit behind on updating my trip. I am leaving Dallas today and am just posting pics from 3 days ago. There has just been so much to do in Dallas plus there are so many people I know from SAIC around for the conference that I have been rather booked lately. So I'll try and catch up in the next couple of days.

The location of where Martin Luther King was assassinated.

While Lauren and I headed out to Dallas we stopped by the National Civil Rights Museum. I had been there once when I was 16 and really enjoyed it. The museum is built where Martin Luther King was shot. The kept the facade of the motel and two rooms intact. One was where King usually stayed and the other was the location in which he stayed as he prepared for his speech just before his assassination. I really enjoy the museum as a while because it deal with so much information in a really visual way. There are many installation based rooms of people doing sit ins and even a burnt bus. I am currently taking a class called Black Power Fantasies with Stanford Carpenter which is probably my favorite academic class this year. We are studying the black power movement and the black panthers and I was really puzzled by how little information they chose to present. Both where happening at the same with common goals and yet there really was almost no information being given except a wall in a hallway. But all and all I had a fun time and seeing where MLK was killed and being able to see how the movement struggled for equality was really powerful.