Upcoming Events at Louisville, KY
Thu Jan 17, 7:00 PM - Mon Jan 21, 10:00 PM
Louisville, KY
Louisville, KY 40202
Community: Downtown Louisville
Description
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WEEKEND TOUR January 17th-21st, 2019 Luxury Coach Bus 3 Civil Rights Cities Montgomery, AL~Birmingham, AL~Memphis, TN Complimentary Snacks* Complimentary Book bag Departure Cities: Thursday, January 17, 2019 Chicago, IL~ Hammond, IN~Lafayet
Event Details
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WEEKEND TOUR
January 17th-21st, 2019 Luxury Coach Bus
3 Civil Rights Cities
Montgomery, AL~Birmingham, AL~Memphis, TN
Complimentary Snacks* Complimentary Book bag
Departure Cities: Thursday, January 17, 2019
Chicago, IL~ Hammond, IN~Lafayette, IN~Indianapolis, IN~Louisville, KY
Friday, January 18, 2019~Montgomery, AL
TOURS
Rosa Parks Museum located at the site of Rosa Parks’ famous arrest, features a restored bus and other artifacts
Dexter Ave. Baptist Church & Parsonage This church was the site of mass meetings to organize the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott. This parsonage, once Dr. King’s home, was bombed several times during the struggle for civil rights.
Freedom Rides Museum The site of the attack on Freedom Riders, this bus station has been restored to how it looked in 1961.
*JUST OPENED, APRIL 2018*
*National Memorial For Peace and Justice The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, 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.
*Legacy Museum (A.K.A. Lynching Museum) At the Legacy Museum, in Montgomery, Mason jars display soil from lynching sites. Each is labelled with the name of the victim, the date of death, and the county where the lynching took place.
Overnight accommodations: Country Inn & Suites
Indoor Pool
Complimentary Full Hot Breakfast
Saturday, January 19th Birmingham, AL
Tours:
16th Street Baptist Church The church was the site of the 1963 bombing that killed four young black girls.
Bethel Baptist Church The site of three separate bombings, this church was the headquarters for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute This modern museum features a rendition of a segregated city in the 1950s, a replica of a Freedom Riders bus and even the actual door to the jail cell that held Dr. King.
Kelly Ingram Park the site of organized protests and boycotts, and in May 1963, was where Bull Connor turned fire hoses and dogs on protestors.
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