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  Get on the Bus 2002 Itinerary


Friday, February 22nd
  • Leave Ann Arbor, 5pm.
  • Drive to Cincinnati.
  • Spend night in Cincinnati.


Saturday, February 23rd

  • Meet with Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, former pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL. Rev. Shuttlesworth is now pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati Ohio.
  • Drive to Memphis.
  • Spend night in Memphis.


Sunday, February 24th

  • Visit National Civil Rights Museum, open 1-5 pm. Contact: Museum at 901-521-9699.
  • Meet with group protesting the NCRM. Before the construction of the NCRM, the Lorraine Motel housed many of the homeless and poor of Memphis. For this reason, a coalition representing the Lorraine's former residents considers the NCRM an unfitting tribute to MLK.
  • Drive to Cleveland, MS. Dinner with Luther Brown, Director of the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, at the Country Platter, an important meeting place for movement activists. Mr. Luther Brown has done much to arrange our visit to the Mississippi Delta.
  • Spend night in Cleveland.


Monday, February 25th

Tour the MS Delta:

  • The Drew Rosenwald School, one of the last surviving schools built by Julius Rosenwald for African Americans during the days of Jim Crow.
    Mound Bayou, MS, a small town originally built as a utopian community by former slaves of the Jefferson Davis family.
  • Shaw, MS, for a meeting with Mrs. Jesse Williams, the first African-American teacher to integrate Delta schools.
  • Lunch and afternoon meeting with LC Dorsey, Margaret Block, and Charles McLaurin, experienced civil rights activists.
  • We may also stop at a plantation in the afternoon, time permitting.
  • Spend night in Cleveland.


Tuesday, February 26th

  • Visit Parchman Prison Farm, now the Mississippi State Penitentiary, from 9:30 to 12:00, with lunch in the prison canteen. The State of Mississippi incarcerated many activists at Parchman in the Sixties under some of the worst penal conditions in the US.
  • Leave for Jackson, MS by 1pm.
  • Meeting with Bob Moses, 4pm, Lanier High School, Jackson Mississippi.
  • Meeting with David Dennis, 6pm, 5135 Galaxie Dr, Jackson MS. Contact: David Dennis (Dennis is a former Freedom Rider, CORE field secretary, and friend of Bob Moses.)
  • Spend night in Jackson.


Wednesday, February 27th


  • ˇ Meeting with Hollis Watkins, 10am at "Southern Echo: in Jackson, MS. (Watkins was one of the first teenagers in MS to join the SNCC voter registration project, joining with Bob Moses in 1961.)
  • Leave Jackson no later than 12 pm. Drive to Selma, Al.
  • Meeting with Lawrence Huggins, Jimmy Webb, Lynda Lowery and Joanne Bland, participants in the Selma-to-Montgomery marches (1965) at the National Voting Rights Museum at 4pm.
  • Drive to Montgomery, AL.
  • Spend night in Montgomery.


Thursday, February 28th

  • Visit Dexter Avenue-King Memorial Church, the Alabama State Capitol, and the Martin Luther King parsonage between 9am and 10 am. Between 1955 and 1956, King and others led the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Following the March from Selma to Montgomery (1965)
  • Visit the Southern Poverty Law Center at 10 am. The SPLC monitors the behavior of hate groups in the US and also sues hate groups on behalf of victims.
  • Lunch at the Davis Café with Tehama Lopez and Penny Weaver.
  • Leave Montgomery no later than 1pm. Drive to Birmingham, AL.
  • Tour the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 3pm. This church, when headed by Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, served as the headquarters for the demonstrations that desegregated Birmingham in the spring of 1963. In September, 1963, the church was bombed and four girls were killed before Sunday school class.
  • Visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 4pm. This museum tells the story of pre-integration Birmingham and the impact of the civil rights movement.
  • Visit Kelly Ingram Park, site of confrontations between the police and demonstrators during the spring of 1963.
  • Drive to Atlanta.
  • Spend night in Atlanta.


Friday, March 1

  • Meet with Connie Curry, 10 am, at the Auburn Street Library. Connie Curry was one of the founding members of SNCC. She has also written many books on the history of the movement.
  • Tour "Sweet Auburn" neighborhood and MLK gravesite.
  • Meet with Congressman John Lewis at his District Office.
  • Meet with David Garrow, 3:30 pm on the campus of Emory University.


Saturday, March 2

  • Spend morning and afternoon in Atlanta.
  • Depart for Lexington, KY at 4:30 pm.
  • Spend night in Lexington.


Sunday, March 3

  • Leave for Ann Arbor.




 

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