CCIU's Interfaith Civil Rights Bus Tour Sept. 19 - 22, 2022

Join us for this very meaningful journey

Our trip will begin in Atlanta, where we will travel by bus to Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham, and then back to Atlanta.

Highlights of the trip will include:

Rosa Parks Museum
Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum and Lynching Memorial
Walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
16th Street Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Center
and more

As an interfaith community, we will also take time to discuss our journey through the lens of our shared imperative to love our neighbors. We expect the trip to fill up quickly. Register by June 29, 2022 to secure your spot.

Please click on the following links for:

Registration

Trip Itinerary

Payment and Cancellation

More information

16th Street Baptist Church

Cancellation and Payment Information

COST
The cost is $1,145 per person, which covers ground transportation, admission fees, hotel accommodations, and meals (beginning on Wednesday breakfast and ending with Friday lunch). Meals consist of an entree and non-alcoholic drink only. Appetizers and desserts are extra. Snacks are not provided. The price is based on double hotel occupancy; a supplement of $200 will be charged for anyone who wishes a single room. Each participant is responsible for arranging and paying for their airfare to and from Atlanta.

We expect the trip to fill up quickly. To secure your place, registration must be completed and payment in full must be received no later than July 22, 2022. Each individual must register separately. Please send your check made out to Etgar 36 in the amount of $1,145 per person (plus any supplements) to:

Interfaith Civil Rights Tour
c/o CCIU
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105

CCIU will collect and deliver uncashed checks to Etgar 36 in one bundle.

COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS and CANCELLATIONS
We will require proof of vaccination (including booster shot) to participate. All tour company staff, drivers and guest speakers are all fully vaccinated.

If an individual cancels after June 29 and before August 1, 2022, they will be responsible to cover any nonrefundable fees and deposits paid for by the tour company.

After July 31, 2022, there will be no refunds for individual cancellations.

Itinerary

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Sept 19

Late afternoon/evening:

Arrive in ATL

Introduction to the journey

Leo Frank Story: Hear the story of Leo Frank, a New York Jew who moved to Atlanta, was falsely convicted of murder and was lynched. This has impacted the identity of Jews in the South since it occurred in 1915

Hotel: Fairfield Inn - Fairburn, GA

Sept 20

Breakfast at hotel

8:00 AM Leave for Montgomery, AL

10:00 AM (CST) Rosa Parks Museum Stand where the Civil Rights movement began and learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott

11:30 AM Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial

12:15 PM Lunch at Martha's Place

1:45 PM Depart for Selma

3:00 PM Tour Selma & The Edmund Pettus Bridge Meet with someone who was beaten on the march. Hear her story. Learn about Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his involvement in the struggle.

5:00 PM Depart for Montgomery

6:00 PM Freedom Riders Exhibit

7:00 PM Dinner and debriefing

Hotel: Fairfield Inn - Montgomery, AL.

Sept 21

Breakfast at hotel

8:15 AM Depart Hotel

9:00 AM Equal Justice Initiative’s Lynching Memorial

Reflect on an often-overlooked tragedy at the first national memorial for victims of lynching

10:30 AM Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum

Explore the evolution of racial oppression from slavery to mass incarceration

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Depart for Birmingham

3:00 PM Walking tour of Freedom Park & 16th Street Baptist Church

Get a walking tour by a Reverend who was a Civil Rights worker in Birmingham in the 50s & 60s and was arrested and had the dogs & hoses turned on him. See the historic church where 4 girls died in a bombing.

5:00 PM Depart for Atlanta and dinner on the way

Hotel: Fairfield Inn – Fairburn, GA

Sept 22

Breakfast at hotel

9:30 AM Meeting with Fair Fight 2020 (founded by Stacey Abrams)

Discuss the issues of, and find out the work going on about, voting rights and voter suppression in Georgia and across the nation.

11 AM Arrive at The King Center and wrap up journey at Dr. King’s tomb

12 Noon Lunch

1 PM National Human and Civil Rights Museum See the brand-new museum that is devoted to understanding modern day Human Rights issues as well as understand the Civil Rights struggle.

3:30pm Depart for airport