Itinerary

Thursday, July 25th -  Meet at St. Nick's parking lot 6:00 a.m. (or 6:30) Gather and load our rental mini-vans.  Bring bag lunches/snacks and filled labeled water bottle; we will have coolers in the rental vans. Wear your team t-shirt. Evanston to Louisville, KY. 5 hrs. Gas/bathroom/lunch stops.   Roots 101: The African American Museum https://www.roots-101.org/plan-your-visit, 

Louisville, KY to Nashville, TN. 3 hours. Stay overnight. Calvary United Methodist Church.

Friday, July 26th. Nashville, TN a.m.  African American Music Museum https://www.nmaam.org/plan-your-visit.   Nashville, TN to Atlanta, GA. Drive to Atlanta, Georgia by dinner time.  4 1/2 hrs. EST so lose an hr. Stay overnight at Park Avenue Baptist Church.

Saturday, July 27th -Monday July, 29th Atlanta, GA. Saturday : Oakland Cemetery https://oaklandcemetery.com/ 8:30 a.m. 

MLK Jr. National Historic Park, 9 or 9:30 a.m.  https://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm. / Ebeneezer Baptist Church. Possible visit to the Sanctuary. 

Lunch

National Center for Civil and Human Rights 2:30 pm https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/. 

Drive approximately 45 minutes to Covington, GA for the night. Dinner either in Atlanta or Covington. 

Sunday a.m. and early afternoon. Bethlehem Baptist Church service and Burge Plantation https://burgeclub.com/burge-history/. 

Sunday night back in Atlanta at Park Avenue Baptist Church. If early enough, see some murals/dinner on the Beltline,  possibly. 

Monday- Visit Land Swap/Cop City/Intrenchment Park with Jackie Echols of South River Watershed Alliance.  Other possibles: Carter Museum, APEX museum, visit just to see the Shipping Container Houses (Atlanta's first rapid housing site to offer housing to the unhoused) (The Melody,184 Forsyth St.), Visit to the Gift of Grace House (Missionaries of Charity house for indigenous women suffering from AIDs).https://georgiabulletin.org/news/2016/09/sisters-spread-joy-coming-sainthood-blessed-teresa/ .Possible lunch at Our Lady of Lourdes. https://lourdesatlanta.org/history/ 

Host community dinner at Park Avenue Baptist Church 6pm. Some change agents invited:  Habesha Collective Coop habeshainc.org, Gangstas to Growers https://www.gangstastogrowers.com/, Living Walls Atlanta livingwallsatl.com/about-us#:~:text=Living%20Walls%20seeks%20to%20change,and%20erasure%20of%20these%20communities, Grow Where You Are https://www.growwhereyouare.farm/, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance  https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-05/documents/uw-factsheet-westatlanta2014.pdf ,South River Watershed Alliance https://www.southriverga.org/ Mercy Community Church https://www.mercyatl.org/  Wylde Center https://www.wyldecenter.org/Stay overnight at Park Avenue Baptist Church

Tuesday July 30th - Atlanta, GA to Tuskegee Airmen National Park, https://www.nps.gov/tuai/index.htm. 2 hrs, CST so  "gain"  an hr. 9am start time for the site, grounds open prior. Continue 38 minutes to Montgomery, AL. Open sites in Montgomery: Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial Center  https://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial (visity by 11:30 a.m.?) Dexter Ave King Memorial Church and Parsonage Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Avenue_Baptist_Church (see outside or try to make apptmt. Otherwise see on Friday) Rosa Parks Museum https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/arts-culture/rosa-parks-museum/index.html 3:30pm tour booked

Stay at Resurrection Catholic Missions of the South https://www.rcmsouth.org/about-resurrection-catholic-missions-of-the-south-inc/history/

Wednesday July 31st Visit Legacy sites including the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Lynching memorial), and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Travel through a comprehensive history of the destructive violence that shaped our nation, from the slave trade, to the era of Jim Crow and racial terror lynchings, to our current mass incarceration crisis—and find inspiration in the soaring Reflection Space and world-class art gallery.   https://legacysites.eji.org/about/museum/

Wed evening: Justice Seekers dinner at Resurrection Catholic Missions of the South 6p.m.

Thursday August 1st- Selma and Birmingham. 

Selma9am tour Tabernacle Baptist Church https://www.nps.gov/places/historic-tabernacle-baptist-church-in-selma.htm#:~:text=Tabernacle%20Baptist%20Church%20is%20the,Black%20community%20in%20segregated%20Selma.

Edmund Pettus Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Brown Chapel AME Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Chapel_A.M.E._Church_(Selma). (Maybe Old Live Oak Cemetery, Old Depot Museum, National Voting Rights Museum)

Selma to Birmingham 1 hr, 42 minutes. 

16th St Baptist Church https://www.16thstreetbaptist.org/our-history/

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute  BCRI – Keep The Legacy Alive    

Birmingham City Jail

Kelly Ingram Sculpture Park https://civilrightstrail.com/attraction/kelly-ingram-park/

City Walk Civil Rights Park 

Vulcan Park

Drive back to Montgomery to spend the night. 

Friday August 2nd   Spend day in Montgomery. See what we missed/possible time in community. Womens' gynecology monument https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/mothers-of-gynecology/ .https://www.pbs.org/video/mothers-of-gynecology-1677535870/ , possibly Dexter Ave. Baptist Church, time to walk or rest and reflect etc. Possibly some service work (serve a meal). 

Saturday August 3rd-a.m. in Birmingham.
See what we missed. Possibly Cahaba River Society. 

Drive to Nashville to spend the night back at Calvery Methodist church. 

Sunday August 4th -arrive home  

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