Day 1
- Orientation
The annual Civil Rights Trip is a new initiative, launching in Spring 2024, that provides an opportunity for Haverford students and employees to travel to the American South as they learn about social justice action, race and American democracy, Southern culture and strategies for thriving citizenship, and frameworks for antiracism.
The trip will take place March 9-15, 2024 and includes the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the National Memorial for Peace & Justice (NMPJ) in Montgomery, Alabama. The NMPJ is the nation's first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. The trip will also include other notable civil rights sites in Alabama - The Edmund Pettus Bridge, National Voting Rights Museum, Brown Chapel AME, and The Rosa Parks Library & Museum.
Follow in the footsteps of some of our greatest civil rights activists as we retrace their journey throughout Atlanta, Montgomery, and Selma. We will be immersed in dialogues, activities, and reflective processes on historic and continued struggle for racial equity, pivotal moments in history, and ways they echo through racial climate in the nation today.
Please note that the itinerary details are subject to change.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.