Civil Rights Tour
Civil Rights Tour
The Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education and the College pay for faculty and staff to participate, and even allows partners and spouses to attend space permitting. It also sponsors similar experiences for students.
The Civil Rights Tour includes a week of travel to various locations associated with the Civil Rights movement, including stops in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Along the way, participants toured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth home, attended church service at Faith Chapel in Birmingham, and visited Civil Rights institutes and museums in Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, and Jackson. The tour also featured a special stop at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the Selma to Montgomery Marches.
2023 Schedule of Events
August 5th, Saturday
| 6:30 am | Collect Breakfast Boxes in the Woodson Center and load bus |
| 7:00 am | Depart for Morgantown, WV |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch an Seminar at University of West Virginia Mountainlair Center |
| 2:30 pm | Load Bus for Hagerstown, MD |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm | Arrive Hotel |
August 6th, Sunday
| 7:00 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 8:00 am | Load bus |
| 9:45 am | Arrive at the National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Board Bus to Greensboro, NC |
| 6:30 pm | Dinner |
| 8:00 pm | Arrive at Hotel |
August 7th, Monday
| 8:00 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 10:00 am | International Civil Rights Center & Museum |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch on bus - leave for Charleston, SC |
| 5:00 pm | Arrive in Charlestown, SC |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm | Hotel |
August 8th, Tuesday
| 8:00 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 8:45 am | Load bus to the Old Slave Market |
| 9:00 am | Old Slave Mart Museum |
| 10:00 am | International African American Museum |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch on bus - Leave for Atlanta, GA |
| 5:00 pm | Arrive in Atlanta, GA |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 | Hotel |
August 9th, Wednesday
| 7:00 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 7:30 am | Depart for Selma |
| 10:00 am | Tour with Journeys for the Soul, Joanne Bland |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Depart for Lowndes County Interpretive Center |
| 2:00 pm | Visit Lowndes County Interpretive Center |
| 4:00 pm | Depart for Montgomery, AL |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm | Hotel |
August 10th, Thursday
| 8:00 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 8:45 am | Load bus for National Memorial for Peace and Justice |
| 9:00 am | Visit National Memorial for Peace and Justice |
| 10:00 am | Head to Legacy Museum |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 12:45 pm | Load Bus for SPLC Civil Rights Memorial |
| 1:00 pm | Visit SPLC Civil Rights Memorial |
| 2:00 pm | Group 1 - Freedom Rides Museum Group 2 - Dexter Ave Parsonage |
| 3:00 pm | Group 1 - Dexter Ave Parsonage Group 2 - Freedom Rides Museum |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner |
| 6:30 | Depart for Hotel |
| 9:30 | Arrive at Hotel |
August 11th, Friday
| 7:00 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 7:30 am | Load bus and depart for Jackson, MS |
| 9:00 am | Visit Mississippi Civil Rights Museum |
| 11:00 am | Lunch |
| 11:30 am | Group A - COFO space 1 Group B - COFO space 2 Group C - Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home |
| 12:00 pm | Group A - COFO space 2 Group B - Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home Group C - COFO space 1 |
| 12:30 pm | Group A - Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home Group B - COFO space 1 Group C - COFO space 2 |
| 1:00 pm | Depart for National Civil Rights Museum at the Loraine Motel |
| 4:00 pm | Visit National Civil Rights Museum |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 8:00 pm | Arrive at hotel |
August 12th, Saturday
| 6:30 am | Breakfast in Hotel Lobby |
| 7:30 am | Depart for Nashville |
| 10:30 am | Visit National African American Music Museum |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch and Debrief |
| 2:30 pm | Depart for Berea |
| 5:30 pm | Arrive at Berea |