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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
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