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Turning Points on the Civil Rights Trail Atlanta • Tuskegee • Montgomery • Selma • Birmingham Children on front line leading the Selma to Montgomery March for the Right to Vote Turning Points on the Civil Rights Trail Atlanta • Tuskegee • Montgomery • Selma • Birmingham March 28–April 3, 2022 Civil Rights Memorial / StretchyBill Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma / Liz Marjollet Commemorate the triumphs and tragedies of the Civil Rights movement by exploring the poignant past of several cities that helped shape the movement: Atlanta, Tuskegee, Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham. See the pulpits and bus stops from which Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks inspired thousands. Walk the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma where the late John Lewis and other activists were attacked on “Bloody Sunday.” Visit Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, a pivotal flashpoint after the deadly bombing that killed four young girls. Visit other influential museums and monuments to Freedom Riders, victims of lynching, and voters’ rights activists, as well as two of the South’s top art museums: the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Birmingham Museum of Art. Highlights of the Tour Tour Highlights • Take a special guided visit of the Morehouse • Cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the footsteps College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, which of thousands who marched from Selma to includes over 600 works, including drafts of the “I Montgomery and beyond for equal voting rights. Have a Dream” speech. • Visit the Freedom Rides Museum, and learn • Visit the newly opened Montgomery Interpretive about the 21 young people who helped end racial Center on the campus of Alabama State University. segregation in public transportation. • Behold the places where the Montgomery Bus • Explore the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, an Boycott was planned and sustained. art deco museum at the Carver Theater that honors great jazz artists connected to the state of • Visit the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. a circular black granite table that records the names of martyrs and chronicles the history of the • Experience the best of Southern comfort and movement. hospitality while savoring home-cooked soul food and BBQ in restaurants selected for their high • Hear from civil rights organizers who risked life quality and ambiance. and limb to gain freedom. The 16th Street Baptist Church and Elizabeth MacQueen’s ‘The Four Spirits’ (2013) / Ron Cogswell Civil Rights Memorial / StretchyBill Tour Itinerary his voice in the church where he the first African American pilots moved hearts and minds. Continue to fly for the Army Air Corps. Monday, March 28, 2022 to the new Ebenezer Baptist Continue to the Tuskegee Institute Church, across the street from National Historic Site, and tour Arrivals in Georgia the church where King, his father founder Booker T. Washington’s Upon arriving in Atlanta, join and grandfather were pastors. At home, the Institute’s campus, and a 1:30 pm group transfer to a the Atlanta Center for Civil and the George Washington Carver restaurant near the four-star Human Rights, experience an Museum. See the Tuskegee Legacy Ellis Hotel. Enjoy lunch in a local engaging cultural attraction that Museum. Continue to Montgomery, restaurant and then check into the connects the American Civil Rights and check into the four-star Ellis Hotel. In the afternoon, meet Movement to today’s ongoing Renaissance Montgomery Hotel your guide and set forth on an human rights struggles around the & Spa at the Convention Center. informative orientation bus tour of globe. Following lunch in Atlanta, Dinner is independent. Atlanta. Hear about the city’s Civil visit the High Museum of Art, the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Rights legacy and about Atlanta’s Southeast’s leading art museum, Spa at the Convention Center (B, L) most famous native, Martin Luther home to a renowned collection of King, from a local historian. Visit historical and contemporary art Thursday, March 31, 2022 the Morehouse College Martin with celebrated architecture by Luther King, Jr. Collection, home Richard Meier and Renzo Piano. Montgomery to hundreds of handwritten notes, Dinner is independent. Walk to the Legacy Museum that opened in 2018 and experience the famous and lesser known speeches, Ellis Hotel (B, L) manuscripts, sermons, and other chronological narrative outlined writings of unparalleled historical Wednesday, March 30, 2022 by its compelling exhibition on the significance. This evening, gather history of racism in America, from for a welcome dinner with regional Atlanta—Tuskegee— slavery to current racial injustices. cuisine at one of Atlanta’s best Montgomery See the National Memorial for restaurants. Check out of the hotel and drive to Peace and Justice, a six-acre site Ellis Hotel (L, D) Montgomery, stopping in the city of that powerfully commemorates Tuskegee. Visit Tuskegee’s Human the victims of lynching. Pause for Tuesday, March 29, 2022 and Civil Rights Multicultural a traditional southern lunch in the Center. After lunch, visit the museum’s renowned restaurant. Atlanta Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Continue to the Rosa Parks Set out for the Martin Luther Site. This site commemorates the Museum and see artifacts from the King, Jr. National Historic Site contributions of African American Montgomery Bus Boycott. At the on Auburn, hear his story, and airmen in World War II, and was Freedom Rides Museum located see where he played as a child. the primary flight training site for in the repurposed Greyhound Walk in his footsteps and hear Bus Station where the Riders marchers led by John Lewis were role in the advancement of the Civil were attacked, learn how brave attacked by state and local police. Rights cause in Alabama. Continue activists helped end transportation At the Selma Interpretive Center, to the Birmingham Civil Rights segregation. Finish at the newly- learn about the events leading up Institute, a large interpretive opened Montgomery Interpretive to the march, and then see exhibits museum that depicts the struggles Center on the ASU campus, which and artifacts from the voting rights of the Movement. Enjoy a free focuses on events that occurred struggle in America in the National afternoon or an optional visit the between March 12 and March 25, Voting Rights Museum. Savor local Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame at the 1965. At the Southern Poverty recipes at a popular lunch spot historic Carver Theater. This art- Law Center, discuss the Center’s in Selma. Continue to the Brown deco museum honors great jazz important work in protecting those Chapel AME church, where “Bloody artists with connections to the state that have been victims of hate Sunday” marchers gathered of Alabama. Bid farewell to the groups. Reflect and rest during a before attempting their walk from south during a memorable dinner free evening. Selma to Montgomery. Proceed to at one of the city’s best restaurants. Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Birmingham and check into the The Westin Birmingham (B, L, D) Spa at the Convention Center (B, L) four-star Westin Birmingham. The Westin Birmingham (B, L) Sunday, April 3, 2022 Friday, April 1, 2022 Departures Saturday, April 2, 2022 Montgomery—Selma— Following breakfast, visit West Birmingham Birmingham Kelly Ingram Park, an historical Check out of the hotel and drive Spend the day exploring assembly point for sit-ins, boycotts, westward to Selma stopping along Birmingham, beginning at the and marches. It is also the site the way to visit the Marchers Birmingham Museum of Art for a where Birmingham police and Memorial and Interpretive guided tour of collection highlights. firemen attacked Civil Rights Center in Lowndes County, Following lunch at the museum’s demonstrators, many of whom which commemorates the events, café, visit the 16th Street Baptist were children. At 10:30 am, drive people, and route of the Selma Church, the tragic site of the 2.5 hours to the Atlanta airport for to Montgomery March of 1965. 1963 Birmingham Ku Klux Klan afternoon flights home departing Continue to Selma, and walk across bombing that killed four young after 3:30 pm. Note: Atlanta is an the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site girls. Take a guided tour of the hour ahead of Birmingham. (B) of “Bloody Sunday,” where 600 church and learn about its critical Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, Tuskegee Airmen Circa May 1942 to Aug 1943 1956 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott Turning Points on the Civil Rights Trail March 28–April 3, 2022 Tour Information TOUR COST TERMS & CONDITIONS: Upon receipt of registration, ISDI Land Package ...............................................................$3,695 will send registrant a Participant Tour Agreement detailing Single Supplement ..........................................................$625 the full terms and conditions for this tour. This document must be signed and returned to ISDI before participant’s Tour Price is per person based on double occupancy, with a registration is considered complete and any arrangements minimum of 15 paying participants. can be confirmed. ACTIVITY LEVEL: Moderate, good walking mobility CANCELLATION & REFUNDS: Cancellation by participant required must be made in writing to ISDI and is effective only upon DEPOSIT & FINAL PAYMENT: A deposit of $1,000 per acknowledged receipt by ISDI. There is a non-refundable person is required to reserve space on the tour. This deposit is registration and planning fee of $500 per person regardless a registration and planning fee and is non-refundable unless of cancellation date. Written cancellation received by ISDI the tour is cancelled due to low enrollment. This deposit may on or before January 12 2022: refund of payments made be paid by check or by Visa or MasterCard. Final balance will minus $500 per person registration and planning fee. be invoiced and is due on January 12, 2022 and must be paid Written cancellation received by ISDI between January 13 by check to International Seminar Design, Inc. 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