Southern Five Day Social Justice Itinerary

DAY ONE

  • Welcome and intro to "A More Perfect Union" Journey
  • Visit the Apex Museum, the first and oldest Black History museum
  • Visit the Center for Civil and Human Rights
  • Dinner
  • Atlanta area hotel

DAY TWO

  • Hotel breakfast
  • Visit Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Site
    • Visitor Center
    • Ebenezer Baptist Church
    • Freedom Hall
    • Birth Home
    • Behold Monument
  • Depart for Montgomery, AL
  • Visit Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
  • Dinner
  • Visit Alabama State Capitol Building
    • Walking tour
    • Discussion on voting rights
  • Civil Rights Memorial
  • Montgomery, AL hotel

DAY THREE

  • Hotel breakfast
  • Visit the Legacy Museum
  • Visit the Rosa Parks Museum
  • Visit the Freedom Rides Museum
  • National Memorial for Peace and Justice
  • Dinner
  • Reflection and discussion
  • Return to hotel

DAY FOUR

  • Hotel breakfast
  • Depart for Selma, AL
  • Welcome center at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge
  • Walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
  • National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
  • Depart for Birmingham, AL
  • Dinner
  • Discussion and reflection at Kelly Ingram Park
  • Hotel in Birmingham, AL

DAY FIVE

  • Hotel breakfast
  • Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (served as headquarters for Civil Rights mass meetings in the early 1960s)
  • Depart for Atlanta
  • Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston, AL
  • Discussion and reflection on the Civil Rights Movement and how to continue the journey
  • Depart for home