Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Spring Break 2017 Itinerary

Friday March 17, 2017 at noon leave Champaign for Washington, DC
Saturday at 3am arrive in Washington, DC
Stay at the Holiday Inn Express 6401 Brandon Avenue Springfield, Virginia 22150

Saturday March 18, 2017
11am-Lunch-Springfield Town Center
12:30 Capitol Tour
1:50-Martin Luther King Memorial/Lincoln Memorial
2pm-4pm Free Time
4:30 Dinner at Hard Times Cafe
6:30pm Head back to the Holiday Inn Express 6401 Brandon Avenue Springfield, Virginia 22150
7:30 Discussion

Sunday March 19, 2017
9:10am Frederick Douglas House, 1411 W Street Southeast, Washington DC 20020
11:30 Lunch Union Station
2pm Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
5pm Dinner Springfield Town Center
6pm leave Washington, DC for Greensboro

Sunday at Midnight arrive in Greensboro
Stay at the Holiday Inn Express 3111 Cedar Park Road Greensboro, NC 27405

Monday March 20, 2017
9:30am International Civil Rights Museum
11:05am Guest Speaker Dr. Tara Green
12:05 Lunch in Downtown Greensboro

Monday at 1pm leave Greensboro for Atlanta- Dinner on the road
Monday at 7pm arrive in Atlanta
Stay at the Hampton Inn 1737 Mountain Industrial Blvd, Stone Mountain GA 30083
7:55pm Discussion

Tuesday March 21, 2016
8:30am Visit King Center which includes, graves of Dr. Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, Ebeneezer Baptist, 2 King Center Museum Buildings, Dr. King’s Birth home
Noon Lunch/Free Time at CNN Center
Other Options of activities: Georgia Aquarium, Coke Museum, Olympic Park
2:30pm Meet in front of National Center for Human and Civil Rights for a photo
2:45pm International Center for Human and Civil Rights 122 Commerce Street
3:00pm Meet with Dr. Bernard LaFayette
5:15 Dinner
7pm Discussion back at the Hampton Inn 1737 Mountain Industrial Blvd, Stone Mountain GA 30083

Wednesday March 22, 2017
7:15am leave Atlanta for Tuskegee
9am arrive in Tuskegee
9am Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
10:45am Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center
Noon: Lunch in Tuskegee Dining Hall
3pm Tuskegee tour including The Oaks (Booker T. Washington’s Home) and the George Washington Carver Museum
5pm leave for Montgomery
6pm arrive in Montgomery and eat Dinner at Shoppes at East Chase
7:30pm Discussion at the Holiday Inn Express 5135 Carmichael Rd Montgomery, AL 36106

Thursday, March 23, 2017
9am: Rosa Parks Museum
10am: Tour of Alabama State Capitol
11am Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Noon: Lunch at the RSA Tower, 770 Washington Ave, Montgomery, AL 36104
1:15 Freedom Rides Museum
2:30 Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, 400 Washington Ave, Montgomery, AL
3:30 Equal Justice Initiative, 122 Commerce Street, Montgomery AL
5:15 Dinner at Eastdale Mall
7:30 Discussion at the Holiday Inn Express Holiday Inn Express 5135 Carmichael Rd Montgomery, AL 36106

Friday, March 24, 2017
8am leave Montgomery for Selma
9am arrive in Selma
9am Footprints to Freedom Tour
11:30am Lunch--fast food options
1pm leave Selma for Memphis-Dinner on the road
7pm arrive in Memphis
7:30 Discussion at the Hampton Inn 310 Angelo's Grove Rd, Marion Arkansas 72364

Saturday, March 25, 2017
9am National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
Noon Lunch on Beale Street
2pm Stax Museum
3:30 Ernest Withers Museum
4:30-6:30 Dinner on Beale Street
7pm Discussion at the Hampton Inn Hampton Inn 310 Angelo's Grove Rd, Marion Arkansas 72364

Sunday March 26, 2017
6am leave Memphis for Champaign

3 comments:

  1. For these past few days it been really great. I learn so much about teenagers were the heart of the civil rights movement.

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  2. Yesterday we went to MLKs birthplace and burial ground and although we were unable to the house, just to walk on the side walk that he walked on was a surreal experience. Also seeing his burial ground was a captivating sight. To know that a man who was in his 30s died for our equality is an amazing experience. Then we went to the Abernathy church was incredible, honestly walking in there felt to unreal, to sit in the same seats as the protesters and activists was impactful.

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  3. The most impactful thing that happened to me today was seeing a man who was incarcerated for 30 years for a crime that he never did. To imagine that 30 years was taken from a man is surreal. To think that mass incarceration is real in America now is a hard pill to swallow. So how do I help effect change in my people

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