Connecticut Council For Interreligious Understanding
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:
16th Street Baptist Church
Itinerary
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