With Black History Month in February it's the perfect time to share my visit last year to this museum and hopefully inspire you to go as well.

After a bus ride filled with bouncing students and multiple rounds of the game 'heads up,' my TAG class traveled from my high school to downtown Atlanta which is around 40 minutes to an hour away. The Center for Civil and Human Rights is located right next to the Coke Museum and Georgia Aquarium, so it was a popular spot and it was packed with all sorts of people even early in the morning on a weekday.

The museum was breathtaking from just standing outside, the architecture of the building was something I've never seen around here before, so I was eager to get inside.

Once you enter the museum you see a huge mural like the one above and a staircase. I immediately fell in love with it and ended up purchasing a shirt with the exact design on it in their gift shop, and my classmates seemed to think the same as we spent about 30 minutes just taking photos in front of it.

After calming down, my group entered the first room with a lot of interactive videos and displays.

In this large room there is plenty to see. On one wall you have famous activists such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. Then, on the opposite side, you have dictators like Hitler or Kim Jong Un. It was interesting because the dictators are all lined up and you could see their exact heights; most were shorter than we imagined. As the exhibit goes on, there are videos and interactive displays on minorities speaking about their own personal stories concerning their struggles with achieving better rights.

I personally enjoyed looking at the world map that showed which countries have the most rights...and the ones that don't have any at all. This was the most shocking to look at, and it became apparent to me at the time that additional work still needs to be done.

After looking through these displays, my class moved on to the other exhibits downstairs. The rest of them in this area were mostly focused on people of color.

There was so much to see: old televisions that one could manually change the channel on and watch speeches from the past on. Famous activists from the past and their biographies filled up the walls along with pictures from civil rights marches in the past. After about an hour I was already worn out, but there was a plenty more to be seen and heard.

The highlight of the museum was this: the diner bar. It looks innocent enough, but once my friends and I joined the long line that wrapped around the exhibit and saw people stumbling away from the chairs with tears in their eyes, it raised some eyebrows.

This diner bar is a stimulation that sends you right back to the past as a black person who simply wants to be served at a diner during segregation. You sit down and put on the headphones and place your hands on the table, then it begins. You close your eyes and your chair starts shaking, there is shouting from men in your ear that are telling you to get off and it progressively gets worse and worse.

Insults and threats were made and a man in your ear telling you to get off the seat while 'kicking' it repeatedly. But, time flashes quickly and you are abruptly taken out of the simulation and moved forward by an employee. My classmates all needed to sit down afterwards to discuss it before we went on to explore the rest of the museum.

Another notable exhibit was that Martin Luther King Jr. had a room dedicated to himself. It was the only room in the entire museum that you had to be silent in, photos were prohibited as well. The room was dimly lit but there was a bright screen that displayed the phrase, "I have a dream" in different languages. In the room you could read his original personal journals that have been preserved. Then, in the corner of this room there is a bookshelf with books he actually kept in his home library.

When you moved upstairs there were additional showcases, but they mostly contained informational videos on big achievements minorities have made in the past. There were benches to sit on and watch, or you could read the posters on the wall.

In the end, there's so much to learn here that I cannot possibly fit it all in one article. It should definitely be a place everyone should visit. This museum was phenomenally made and each and every exhibit is crafted in such a way that all ages can understand and take something from it. The next time you're looking for something to do downtown, consider coming here!