Summer Study Trip
The Civil Rights Movement in the South: May 18-31, 2009
Course in Motion: A Special Summer Study Trip throughout the Southern U.S.
Join us for our third annual journey through the historical heart of the Civil Rights Movement on this trip through nine southern states.
Following the chronological development of the movement, we will visit historic civil rights sites and institutions while interacting with civil rights activists and scholars as we experience southern culture, food, music, and history.
Walk in the footsteps of African-American activists who challenged and overthrew segregation laws that denied them entrance into public education, the use of public accommodations, and the right to vote.
Visit the actual sites of action and meet with activists across the South who helped galvanize the movement for equality then and continue the struggle for equality today.
This trip will include visits to:
- National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, housed in the Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination
- Delta Blues Museum in the Mississippi Delta
- New Orleans, LA as it approaches the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
- Central High School in Little Rock, AR; the University of Mississippi and Institute for Racial Reconciliation in Oxford, Mississippi
- Rosa Parks Museum housed on the site of her arrest and the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church where King preached equality and justice, both in Montgomery, Alabama
- Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where civil rights opponents violently attacked marchers as they crossed it on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965
- Juneteenth CultureFest at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama
- MLK Jr. National Historic Site and Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia
- Citizenship schools near Charleston, South Carolina
- Woolworth Building in Greensboro, North Carolina
All stops and destinations are tentative and subject to change.
For more information, please contact the professors leading the class:
Melissa Ooten at mooten@richmond.edu or 804-289-8840
Brian Daugherity at bdaugher@richmond.edu
This course meets a one-unit (equivalent to approximately three credit hours) History or WGSS requirement for University of Richmond traditional undergraduate students.
Apply
Complete Application in PDF
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. Application & $150 deposit due Mon., Feb. 27, 2009 (payable to University of Richmond, memo Civil Rights Summer Study Program). Deposit is nonrefundable.
Deadlines
Application and deposit: Feb. 27
First payment: Mar. 20
Final payment: Apr. 20
Costs
$2,000, which includes tuition, admission fees, lodging and transportation. Food and books are not included.
Magazine Feature
The 2007 class was featured in an article titled "Road Trip to History" in the Fall 2007 edition of Richmond: The Alumni Magazine.