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– Visit prominent locations integral to the Civil Rights Movement, including Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
– Retrace the footsteps and learn more of central figures, including Dr. King, Rosa Parks, and Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
– Visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—two institutions that have taken diverse and complementary approaches to telling the rich and moving stories of the Civil Rights Movement and of America’s history of racial inequality.
– Delight in a farewell lunch accompanied by true southern hospitality at the private restored antebellum home of Ms. Sandy Taylor, the retired Superintendent of the National Park Services Tuskegee Site.
– Journey through the Deep South to gain an enhanced understanding of the historic and continued struggle for racial equality in the United States.
– Celebrate the accomplishments of pioneering African American aviators at the Tuskegee Airmen Historic Site.
Overnight: Redmont Hotel
Meals: Reception
Overnight: Redmont Hotel
Meals: Breakfast
Overnight: Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Overnight: Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Scott Ellsworth is an award-winning writer and historian who teaches in the Department of Afro-American and African Studies. His most recent book, THE GROUND BREAKING, about the 1921 Tulsa massacre, was hailed by the New York Times as a “riveting . . . skillful narrative.” Scott has previously served as a faculty host for UM alumni travel trips to Italy, England, Scotland, and Ireland.
– Visit prominent locations integral to the Civil Rights Movement, including Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
– Retrace the footsteps and learn more of central figures, including Dr. King, Rosa Parks, and Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
– Visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—two institutions that have taken diverse and complementary approaches to telling the rich and moving stories of the Civil Rights Movement and of America’s history of racial inequality.
– Delight in a farewell lunch accompanied by true southern hospitality at the private restored antebellum home of Ms. Sandy Taylor, the retired Superintendent of the National Park Services Tuskegee Site.
– Journey through the Deep South to gain an enhanced understanding of the historic and continued struggle for racial equality in the United States.
– Celebrate the accomplishments of pioneering African American aviators at the Tuskegee Airmen Historic Site.
Overnight: Redmont Hotel
Meals: Reception
Overnight: Redmont Hotel
Meals: Breakfast
Overnight: Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Overnight: Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Scott Ellsworth is an award-winning writer and historian who teaches in the Department of Afro-American and African Studies. His most recent book, THE GROUND BREAKING, about the 1921 Tulsa massacre, was hailed by the New York Times as a “riveting . . . skillful narrative.” Scott has previously served as a faculty host for UM alumni travel trips to Italy, England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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