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Birmingham AL
The segregation laws in the United States started to come down in Birmingham Alabama in the 1963 with the S.C.L.C.’s Project C.
Martin Luther King Jr. called Birmingham “the most throughly segregation city in the United States”. Birmingham was the S.C.L.C’s first campaign where they enlisted the help of young students as Foot Soldiers.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed as a direct result of what happened during the 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Campaign.
Tour Highlights: The 16th Street Baptist Church, Kelly-Ingram Park,
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the Temptations Monument.
Selma AL
We will discover how Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” became a turning point in the Modern Civil Rights Movement. The Selma to Montgomery March came from the voting rights struggle that was initiated by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) with their Voter Registration Drive of 1964. The death of Civil Rights worker Jimmie Lee Jackson in early 1965 led to the Selma to Montgomery March.
Tour Highlights: Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge and touring the by Brown A.M.E. Chapel and the voter registration battlefield at the Dallas County Courthouse.
Birmingham & Selma
Wednesday-Saturday
Depart: 7:00am / Day Trip
Departure Location: Martin Luther King Jr. National Park / Parking Lot
Alabama is calling your name!
In Birmingham you can walk through Kelly-Ingram Park and across the street learn about the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church!
Explore the Civil Rights Movement, through the experiences of young people that became Foot Soldiers and are now the storytellers and keepers of the Civil Rights History.
Immerse yourself in the history of key cities of the Civil Rights Movement. The Alabama cities of Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma all had successful campaigns that helped remove the segregated barriers that were in place for almost a 100 years.
The Jim Crows walls came tumbling down in the South.
You can see the Edmund Pettus Bridge in many pictures and videos, but the feelings you get from walking the bridge, knowing the fear the marchers had in seeing the State Troopers lined up on the other side.
You will be left an indelible memory, as you take every step.
At the new EJI Freedom Monument Sculpture Park you will take an emotional walk through the thought provoking park experience . With every step you take, you will understand the hardships that the enslaved faced every day of their lives. Also in the park is the National Monument to Freedom, a four paneled wall that list over 122,000 surnames of African Americans. What a beautiful way to honor the people that endured 246 years of slavery in America and still cling to the hope of freedom.
We are offering Day Trips from Atlanta to Montgomery with time to explore the Legacy Museum, the National Center for Peace and Justice. You can also book the Birmingham and Selma Tour also with a 7:00am departure from your Atlanta hotel.
You can book the Freedom Rides / Civil Rights Tours online.
Meeting location / Pick up at area local hotels.
Roger was an excellent tour guide! My son may be moving to Atlanta and wanted an overview of the neighborhoods to narrow down where he’d want to live. Roger was so helpful, knowledgeable and engaging that we thoroughly enjoyed the tour! We could never have covered that much ground ourselves and learned so much about Atlanta. Thanks Roger, you’re awesome!
– Leslie Reifsteck
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