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Civil Rights Public History Miniterm
ITINERARY
Contacts:
Melinda Lawson: Cell phone 518-598-9623
Maggie Tongue: Cell phone: 518-698-9887
Tuesday, December 1: Arrive at Charleston Hotel by 6 p.m.
Andrew Pinckney Inn (named after a freed slave)
40 Pinckney St.
Charleston, S.C.
843-937-8800
Dinner Together
Wednesday, December 2: In Charleston
Breakfast in Hotel
9:15: Leave for Sullivan’s Island (the African American “Ellis Island”)
12:00 Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens (with original slave cabins) for the day (Box
lunch there)
6:00 Dinner
Thursday, December 3: In Charleston
Breakfast in Hotel
9:30 “Sites and Insights” Black History Tour
“This motorized tour …covers Charleston's ubiquitous African American history. You'll see and hear about: Emanuel AME Church, Catfish Row, City Market, The Battery, Old Slave Mart Museum, Site of the Hanging Tree, Aiken-Rhett House, Stories of Gullah Culture, Free Blacks, Denmark Vesey Slave Plot, Civil War, East Side, West Side, The Citadel, City Jail, Old Marine Hospital Building, Philip Simmons Ironworks, Avery Institute and much more.”
12:00 Lunch at Gullah Cuisine
1:00 Sea Islands Tour – James and John Islands; McCleod Plantation (also with slave
cabins)
6:00 Dinner
Friday, December 4: In Charleston
Breakfast in Hotel
Morning Off in Charleston, including lunch
1:00 – 4:30 Walking Tour of Charleston, including Liberty Square (Septima Clark and
Esau Jenkins Memorials)
Tour the Aiken-Rhett House (urban slavery)
Tour the Slave Mart Museum
Tour the Avery Institute
6:00 Dinner
Saturday December 5th: Depart Charleston for Atlanta at 9 a.m.
Breakfast in Hotel
9:00 Pick up by Charter Bus: Holiday Tours, Inc. Randleman, NC
Saturday December 5, 2009: Arrive Atlanta by 3:00 p.m. (includes lunch break)
Emory Conference Center Hotel
1615 Clifton Road
Atlanta, Ga. 30329
404-712-6000
6:00 Dinner
Sunday December 6: In Atlanta
8:00 Depart for Atlanta King Center
8:00 Box Breakfast on the Bus
8:20 Arrive King Center (in line for tickets to tour King’s birth home)
9:00 Tour King Center and Birth Home
1:00 Lunch
2:30 Back at Hotel
3:00 Meet with Charles Person. Mr. Person was active in the sit-in movement and was
one of the original 1961 Freedom Riders
6:00 Depart For Dinner (Meet in Lobby)
8:00 Back at Hotel
9-11 Activities/ Games at Hotel (Bowling, pool and billiards, etc.)
Monday December 7: In Atlanta; Depart for Montgomery
9:30 Meet in Lobby – out to Breakfast
11:00 Meet with Reverend C.T. Vivian at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Rev. Vivian was a
major Civil Rights leader and close ally of Martin Luther King Jr.
12:30 Lunch in Atlanta
Monday, December 7: Depart Atlanta approx. 2 p.m.
Monday, December 7: Arrive Montgomery approx. 4 p.m. CST
Wingate by Wyndham
2060 Eastern Blvd.
Montgomery, AL 36117
334-244-7880
6:00 Dinner
8:00 Movie: “The Long Walk Home”
Tuesday December 8: In Montgomery
Breakfast in Hotel
8: 30: Depart for Attractions
9:00- 10:30 Rosa Parks Library and Museum
10:45: Greyhound Freedom Rides Exterior Exhibit
210 South Court Street
11:00: Dexter Ave. Memorial Baptist Church
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Tour of King Parsonage
2- 4:00 Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Ave.
Civil Rights Memorial (in open plaza)
Civil Rights Memorial Center
Theatre, Exhibits, Wall of Tolerance
5:00 Arrive back at Hotel
6:00 Dinner
Wednesday December 9: Depart Montgomery at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday December 9: Arrive Selma at 10:30 a.m.
11:00 Meet with Joanne Bland at 11:00 at Essie’s for lunch. Ms. Bland marched across
the Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday as an 11 year old.
12:00 Cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge; visit sites along the Selma to Montgomery
Highway; Brown Chapel AME Church (SCLC Headquarters) and more, all with Joanne Bland.
Wednesday December 9, Depart Selma at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday December 9: Arrive Birmingham 6:00 p.m.
Wingate by Wyndham Birmingham
800 Corporate Ridge Drive
Hwy 280 E. and Valleydale Road
Birmingham, AL 35242 US
205-995-8586
6:30: Dinner
8:00: Movie (TBD)
Thursday December 10th : In Birmingham
Breakfast in Hotel
9:30 Depart for Sites
10:00 Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Kelly Ingram Park Tour
2:00 Meet with Carolyn McKinstry, a childhood friend of the four young girls killed in the
Birmingham Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. Ms. McKinstry was present when the church was bombed. She will give us a tour of the church and discuss her experience.
6:00 Dinner
Friday December 11th: Depart Birmingham at 8:00a.m.
Breakfast in hotel
Friday December 11th : Arrive Memphis at 1 p.m. (lunch break included)
Sleep Inn at Court Square
40 Front Street
Memphis, TN 38103
901-522-9700
1:30 Depart for National Civil Rights Museum (Lorraine Motel)
7:00 Dinner at BB King Blues Cafe
Evening: Beale Street
Saturday December 12: Day Off
Breakfast in Hotel
Maggie and Melinda will also be headed to Graceland – everyone is welcome to come along, but the miniterm cannot pay
Sunday December 13: Morning off
Breakfast in Hotel
Morning Off
12:40 Depart for Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Sunday December 13th: Depart Memphis at 3:00 p.m.
Sunday December 13: Arrive Little Rock at 5:30 p.m.
Comfort Inn & Suites Downtown at the Clinton Library
707 Interstate 30, Little Rock, AR, US, 72202
Phone: (501) 687-7700
6:30 Dinner
Monday December 14: In Little Rock
Breakfast in Hotel
8:30 Depart for Little Rock Central High
9:00 Tour Little Rock Central High School and Visitors’ Center
10:00 Meet with Minniejean Brown Trickey. Ms. Trickey was one of the Little Rock 9
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Meet with Thelma Mothershed Wair. Ms. Wair was one of the Little Rock 9
Monday, December 14: Depart Little Rock at 2:30 p.m.
Movie en Route: “Ghosts of Mississippi”
Monday, December 14: Arrive Jackson at 9:30 p.m. (includes dinner stop and break)
Hampton Inn Jackson North
465 Briarwood
Jackson, MS 39206
1-601-956-3611
December 15: In Jackson for Half Day
Breakfast in Hotel
Morning Off
(Laundry and Grocery optional)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Medgar Evers House Museum: meet with Minnie Watson, curator
2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive
Jackson, MS 601-977-7710.
December 15th : Depart Jackson for New Orleans at 2:30p.m.
Movie en Route: “Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”
December 15, 6:00: Arrive in New Orleans
Omni Royal Orleans Hotel
621 St Louis St
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 529-5333
7:00 Dinner
December 16: Day in New Orleans
Morning Off in New Orleans
1-4:00 Grayline Tour of Katrina damage
4:30-7:00 Class in Conference Room
8:00 Dinner
December 17th: Day In New Orleans
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Tour of Faubourg Treme and Congo Square
12:00 Lunch (Soul food)
1:00 Tour of St. Louis #1 Cemetery (emphasis on African Americans buried there)
2:00 French Quarter, Jackson Square, etc.
6:00 Dinner
8:00 Preservation Hall (New Orleans style Jazz) and/or other jazz venue
December 18th: Fly Home
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