Meet your group at Anderson UMC in Jackson, MS, and head to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum together. Then, head to lunch together before driving to Birmingham. After checking into your hotel, enjoy free time on your own. Dinner is not included.

Start your morning at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute with a guided tour. Learn about Birmingham’s history while seeing some of the most powerful artifacts of the Civil Rights movement.
After the included lunch, head to 16th Street Baptist Church, where on September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded under the steps of the church, causing the deaths of four young girls. Tour the church and learn more about the history of the church and how this bombing brought national attention to this historic building. Return to the hotel. Dinner is on your own.

Say goodbye to Birmingham this morning and head south to Selma. Stop at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers. If the weather allows, walk across the bridge. Stop at the Lowndes County Interpretive Center on the way to Montgomery. The center is dedicated to those who marched from Selma to Montgomery to gain the right to vote. Learn about Viola Liuzzo, Jonathan Daniels, and many others who lived in Lowndes County, Alabama during the fight for Civil Rights. Enjoy an included lunch in Montgomery before
heading to the Legacy Sites - the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. At the museum, trace the evolution of the dehumanizing myth of racial difference and
its legacy throughout American history. Learn through first-person historical narratives and interactive media in this state-of-the- art museum. Lastly, visit the outdoor memorial for those killed in racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950. Check into your Montgomery hotel. Dinner is not included.

Begin your morning at the Dexter Baptist Church and parsonage to learn more about this church’s role in civil rights as well as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tenure as pastor here from 1954 to
1960. Tour the church and see the beautiful mural in the basement as well as the parsonage, restored to what it would have looked like in the 1950s. Meet with a special lecturer to learn about his
work at the Equal Justice Initiative. Travel to Atlanta and check into your hotel. Lunch is included. Dinner is on your own.

This morning, visit the exhibits at the King Center to learn more about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., then spend some free time walking around the National Historic Site across the street. Enjoy
an included lunch before heading to the National Center of Civil and Human Rights, a museum dedicated to the civil rights movement in the United States as well as the broader worldwide
human rights movement. After your guided tour, enjoy your free time in Atlanta. Dinner is on your own.

Check out of your hotel and head back to Jackson, MS. Breakfast and lunch included.