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A struggle that endures
 

Experience a living history of our country’s struggles for fundamental rights and equal voting for all. Go beyond the classroom walls and computer screens. Join students from across the county to walk in the footsteps of America’s most influential Civil Rights activists.

From learning more about our greatest Civil Rights leader to visiting some of the most important locations in the Civil Rights movement, this program will shape your mind for years to come. You’ll also stretch what you think is possible and see the world—and yourself—in new ways.

Civil Rights in the South ×
Day 1: Welcome to Atlanta!
  • Arrive in Atlanta
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park
  • Centennial Olympic Park
Day 2: Birmingham
  • Depart for Birmingham, AL
  • 16th Street Baptist Church
  • Kelly Ingram Park
  • Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
  • Vulcan Park
Day 3: Selma—Montgomery
  • Depart for Selma, AL
  • Selma Interpretive Center
  • Edmund Pettus Bridge
  • National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
  • Depart for Montgomery, AL
  • Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
  • National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Day 4: End tour
  • Depart for Atlanta, GA
  • National Center for Civil & Human Rights
  • Depart Atlanta for home

Program Highlights

Edmund Pettus Bridge

Walk the bridge know for Bloody Sunday, when nearly 600 peaceful Civil Rights marchers were attacked by state troopers and forced back across the bridge with nightsticks and tear gas.

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park

Learn about Dr. King’s early life at his boyhood home on Auburn Avenue, listen to his sermons and speeches at the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, and take a stroll down the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Take a journey back in time from slavery, through decades of lynching and racial terror, into the Civil Rights era, and on to contemporary issues of police violence and racial bias in the criminal justice system.

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church

Visit the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960 and began his quest for civil rights as a leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association by organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.

Those are just a few of the many experiences you will enjoy at our Civil Rights in the South program. If you have any questions or would like to secure your spot and claim your discount over the phone, please call 844-320-0393.