Bloody Sunday, Selma, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Summer 2023 - Alabama
Schedule
Program of Study and Workshops
Dates are scheduled June 25-30, 2023 OR July 9-14, 2023.
The workshops will be offered over a 7-day period (one week). Both sessions are designed to give teachers a deeper understanding of a geographically and chronologically expansive definition of the American civil rights movement through explorations of place and landscape, access to primary source materials, and workshops for strategies on place-based learning about race and inequality.
Sunday June 25, July 9
Welcome Session
Opening talk with Dr. Bertis English, Alabama State University, on "The Roots of the Black Belt Freedom Struggle"
Monday - June 26, July 10
Tour of Marion, Alabama
Bus tour to Marion, Alabama. Sites include Zion Methodist, Old Perry County Jail, Mack's Diner, Lincoln School, Jimmie Lee Jackson gravesite. Lunch and afternoon conversation with local leaders and preservationists at Zion Methodist.
Tuesday - June 27, July 11
The Selma Conflict Site
Tour of Brown Chapel AME Church, Edmund Pettus Bridge, and other Bloody Sunday sites of conflict
Wednesday - June 28, July 12
Walking Tour of Selma, Alabama
Walking tour and landscape ethnography of Selma. Sites include Hudson HS, Clarke Elementary, George Washington Carver Housing, African American History Museum, Concordia College, Selma University, Selma Brick Factory, Edistone Hotel, Water Street locations
Thursday - June 29, July 13
Tour from Selma to Montgomery
Bus tour from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama to follow original marchers walk. Visit campsites and Viola Liuzzo Memorial
Friday - June 30, July 14
Tour of Montgomery, Alabama
Tour of Capital, Equal Justice Initiative, Saint Jude, and other sites in Montgomery, Alabama