escaped unharmed. His friend Turner announces they'll attack the perpetrators with weapons in retaliation, but Martin stops him, reminding the crowd of Mahatma Gandhi peacefully standing his ground to exile the British colonies from India and of Jesus teaching love for his enemies. Miles and Randy travel to the Birmingham riot of 1963, witnessing firemen and police officers spraying black protesters with firehoses and releasing German Shepherds on them on the order of Bull Connor before arresting them. The boys are transported back to the museum and rejoin their class at school the next day. Miles and Randy tell Miss Clark about the events prior to Martin's work. The class watches a videotape of Martin's work. After school, the boys' classmates, Latina girl Maria and another white boy Kyle, decide to investigate for themselves of how Miles and Randy got the information. When the boys arrive at the museum, Mrs. Peck lets them stay but warns them that when one messes with the past, this can affect the present. Maria and Kyle follow and catch them in Martin's bedroom. The four are transported to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and meet Martin in his 30s along with a young Mrs. Clark. When they return, they discover Martin was assassinated. To save him, they travel back to 1941 and bring 12-year-old Martin to the present; however, only Miles and Martin return together, and the present is now different: the museum is burnt down; Randy and Kyle are racists and no longer friends with Miles nor even know him; Miles' school bus driver, Mr. Willis, is also now racist and refuses to allow black students to ride the bus, their school is segregated and instead named after Robert E. Lee (Jefferson Davis' military advisor in the American Civil War, which ended slavery); the principal, Mr. Harris, is also racist and mistreats Mrs. Clark; Maria works as a maid who cannot speak English; and Miles' and his mother now live in poverty. The next day, Martin surmises that because he left his own time, it created an alternate timeline where his civil rights work never happened. Realizing he must go back to his own time, Martin bids Miles farewell despite the latter's attempted warnings of his assassination. Martin gives Miles his watch before returning to his time, where he is shot dead at the motel and the timeline returns to