Outside of a building on the Civil Rights Tour with historical images of Civil Rights leaders painted on it

Civil Rights Tour

The Carter G. Woodson Center for Interracial Education and the College pay for faculty and staff to participate, and even allows partners and spouses to attend space permitting. It also sponsors similar experiences for students.

The Civil Rights Tour includes a week of travel to various locations associated with the Civil Rights movement, including stops in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Along the way, participants toured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth home, attended church service at Faith Chapel in Birmingham, and visited Civil Rights institutes and museums in Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, and Jackson. The tour also featured a special stop at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the Selma to Montgomery Marches.

Civil Rights Tour
Civil Rights Tour

2023 Schedule of Events

August 5th, Saturday

6:30 amCollect Breakfast Boxes in the Woodson Center and load bus
7:00 amDepart for Morgantown, WV
12:30 pmLunch an Seminar at University of West Virginia Mountainlair Center
2:30 pmLoad Bus for Hagerstown, MD
5:00 pmDinner
7:00 pmArrive Hotel

August 6th, Sunday

7:00 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
8:00 amLoad bus
9:45 amArrive at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pmBoard Bus to Greensboro, NC
6:30 pmDinner
8:00 pmArrive at Hotel

August 7th, Monday

8:00 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
10:00 amInternational Civil Rights Center & Museum
12:30 pmLunch on bus - leave for Charleston, SC
5:00 pmArrive in Charlestown, SC
5:30 pmDinner
7:00 pmHotel

August 8th, Tuesday

8:00 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
8:45 amLoad bus to the Old Slave Market
9:00 amOld Slave Mart Museum
10:00 amInternational African American Museum
12:00 pmLunch on bus - Leave for Atlanta, GA
5:00 pmArrive in Atlanta, GA
5:30 pmDinner
7:30Hotel

August 9th, Wednesday

7:00 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
7:30 amDepart for Selma
10:00 amTour with Journeys for the Soul, Joanne Bland
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pmDepart for Lowndes County Interpretive Center
2:00 pmVisit Lowndes County Interpretive Center
4:00 pmDepart for Montgomery, AL
5:00 pmDinner
7:00 pmHotel

August 10th, Thursday

8:00 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
8:45 amLoad bus for National Memorial for Peace and Justice
9:00 amVisit National Memorial for Peace and Justice
10:00 amHead to Legacy Museum
12:00 pmLunch
12:45 pmLoad Bus for SPLC Civil Rights Memorial
1:00 pmVisit SPLC Civil Rights Memorial
2:00 pmGroup 1 - Freedom Rides Museum
Group 2 - Dexter Ave Parsonage
3:00 pmGroup 1 - Dexter Ave Parsonage
Group 2 - Freedom Rides Museum
5:00 pmDinner
6:30Depart for Hotel
9:30Arrive at Hotel

August 11th, Friday

7:00 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
7:30 amLoad bus and depart for Jackson, MS
9:00 amVisit Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
11:00 amLunch
11:30 amGroup A - COFO space 1
Group B - COFO space 2
Group C - Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
12:00 pmGroup A - COFO space 2
Group B - Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
Group C - COFO space 1
12:30 pmGroup A - Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
Group B - COFO space 1
Group C - COFO space 2
1:00 pmDepart for National Civil Rights Museum at the Loraine Motel
4:00 pmVisit National Civil Rights Museum
6:00 pmDinner
8:00 pmArrive at hotel

August 12th, Saturday

6:30 amBreakfast in Hotel Lobby
7:30 amDepart for Nashville
10:30 amVisit National African American Music Museum
12:30 pmLunch and Debrief
2:30 pmDepart for Berea
5:30 pmArrive at Berea