University of Virginia history professor and civil rights icon Julian Bond will lead the second annual "Civil Rights South" tour through Georgia and Alabama March 1-7, 2008. The tour will begin and end in Atlanta, the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. From there, the tour will visit historic landmarks like the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., museums such as the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and organizations including the Southern Poverty Law Center that continue today to carry on the work of the Civil Rights Movement.
"The route has the advantage of following the movement's development chronologically," said Bond, current chairman of the NAACP and co-founder in 1960 of the influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The route runs from Atlanta to Tuskegee, Ala., where the voting rights movement began in the early 1950s; to Montgomery, Ala., where Rosa Parks led the watershed bus boycott (1955-56); to Selma, Ala., where civil rights activists in 1963 began an influential effort to register black voters; and on to Birmingham, the site of the historic 1963 Children’s March and home to the Civil Rights Museum.
Registration for the seven-day Travel & Learn program, offered by the University of Virginia's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, is open to anyone. Prices range between $1995 and $2845 per person, depending on accommodation choices, and include all site fees, program materials, and all meals except one dinner and lunch. (Price doesn't include airfare to Atlanta, where the tour begins and ends.) Participants will be lodged at centrally located hotels in Atlanta, Montgomery and Birmingham. Registration will remain open until the trip is filled.
To register or learn more about the tour visit www.virginia.edu/travelandlearn/2008 civilrights.html or contact the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at (434) 982-5252.
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