By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. u2015 History came alive for Raashed Kennion on Sunday when the Auburn football player who grew up learning about the civil rights movement from his grandparents came face to face with it on 16th Street North, across the way from where four young girls were killed in a church bombing in 1963.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute provided Kennion and his Auburn teammates a history lesson and more as they toured the facility as part of the activities leading up to Wednesday's Birmingham Bowl.
The photos, the statues, the words, the separate water fountains for whites and blacks, the scratchy films of days gone by reminded all of the past of a troubled Birmingham, of a troubled South, during the time of segregation.