The Civil Rights Movement in the South: May 19 - June 8, 2008

IMPORTANT NOTE
Quest funding may be available for this course. Contact the professors for more information.

Join us for our second annual journey through the historical heart of the Civil Rights Movement on this 21-day trip through nine southern states.

Following the chronological development of the movement, we will visit historic civil rights sites and institutions while interacting with civil rights activists and scholars as we experience southern culture, food, music, and history.

Walk in the footsteps of African-American activists who challenged and overthrew segregation laws that denied them entrance into public education, the use of public accommodations, and the right to vote.

Visit the actual sites of action and meet with activists across the South who helped galvanize the movement for equality then and continue the struggle for equality today.

This trip will include visits to:

• National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennesse, housed in the Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assasination;
• Delta Blues Museum in the Mississippi Delta;
• New Orleans, LA as it approaches the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina;
• Central High School in Little Rock, AR; the University of Mississippi and Institute for Racial Reconciliation in Oxford, Mississippi;
• Rosa Parks Museum housed on the site of her arrest and the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church where King preached equality and justice, both in Montgomery, Alabama;
• Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where civil rights opponents violently attacked marchers as they crossed it on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965;
• Juneteenth CultureFest at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama;
• MLK Jr. National Historic Site and Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia;
• Citizenship schools near Charleston, South Carolina;
• Woolworth Building in Greensboro, North Carolina;

All stops and destinations are tentative and subject to change.

For more information, please contact the professors leading the class:

• Melissa Ooten | mooten@richmond.edu | 804-289-8840
• Brian Daugherity | bdaugher@richmond.edu

This course meets a three credit hour History or WGSS requirement for University of Richmond traditional undergraduate students.