Category: civil rights

• July 28, 2017

  Day 4 (Cont): Selma and Montgomery, Alabama

  Our tour group with civil rights activist  Joanne Bland  Following our visit to the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), we continued day four with a visit to the Lowndes County Interpretive Center. This center is a smaller museum, yet again tells the powerful history of local people in Lowndes County, which sits between Selma and Montgomery,…
• July 24, 2017

  Day 4: The Equal Justice Institute(Part I)

    Photo taken by the group’s photographer.  Itinerary:  9:00am    Equal Justice Initiative 11:30am  Lowndes County Interpretive Center 12:45pm  Lunch @ Popeyes 1:30pm    Tour w/ Ms. Joanne Bland  3:00pm    National Voting Rights Museum and Institute (Didn’t go) 5:00pm    Edmund Pettus Bridge and Viola Luzzo Memorial  The day began with a rush to…
• July 20, 2017

  Day 3: Albany, GA and Montgomery

  It was my goal to blog once a day on the bus tour; however, each day was HEAVY and by the time we made it to our next hotel exhaustion set in. The tour officially ended on June 18th, but I made an effort to journal and keep notes each day. The next series of…