Sep 24 | Arrive at Montgomery Regional Airport
After settling into the hotel, we will join our trip guides, Jake Williams and Michelle Browder at the More Up Campus for dinner and an introduction to the Civil Rights Movement.

Sep 25 | Introduction to Montgomery & Grounding Tour
We begin our tour with a history of the slave trade with our guide, Michelle Browder. Michelle will lead us through the historic waterfront and downtown Montgomery, sites that made Montgomery one of the most important and conspicuous slave trading communities in the United States. In the afternoon, we will visit The Freedom Rides Museum, where in 1961 peaceful Civil Rights activists made history by challenging segregated travel in the South, and Mothers of Gynecology, a 15-foot monument which pays homage to three enslaved experimental subjects of the so-called “father of gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, and shines a light on the ongoing racial disparities in the healthcare industry.

Sep 26 | The Harris House & Freedom Monument Sculpture Park
On the third day of our trip, we will meet Dr. Valda Harris Montgomery, neighbor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who will recount fond, moving, and harrowing memories involving her family’s friendship with the Kings. In the afternoon we will visit the newly erected, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site along the Alabama River which honors the lives and memories of the 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America. 

Sep 27 | Day Trip to Selma
With Jake Williams as our guide, we will travel to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most pivotal sites, Selma, Alabama. Along the way, we will stop at key historical markers like the Viola Liuzzo Monument, a memorial commemorating civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo who was fatally shot by Klan members during the Selma to Montgomery marches. Following lunch, Jake Williams will walk us across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Together, we will retrace his and other Civil Rights leaders’ steps during the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March and the site of “Bloody Sunday,” where six hundred marchers were brutally attacked during the first Civil Rights March for Voting Rights in 1965.

Sep 28 | Legacy Museum & The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Our final full day of the trip will begin at the Legacy Museum where we will be immersed in the sights and sounds of the slave trade, racial terrorism, the Jim Crow South, and the world’s largest prison system. Following lunch at the Equal Justice Initiative Pavilion, we will visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, which commemorates the black victims of lynching in the United States.