STONY THE ROAD WE TROD... MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS BUS TOUR
STONY THE ROAD WE TROD...
THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT BUS TOUR
October 20-23, 2011
Eighteen months after the Supreme Court ruling in the Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on
the bus. It was December 1, 1955, and Rosa Parks, secretary and youth
director of the local NAACP branch, was riding the Cleveland Avenue bus
home from her job as a seamstress at Montgomery Fair department store.
She sat behind the white section. But at the third stop there was no room to
seat the white people who got on, so the bus driver asked Parks and three
other Black Americans to stand in the back of the bus. After she refused
twice, the driver left the bus and brought back two policemen who arrested
her, ironically for disorderly conduct. At the trial she was found guilty and
fined $10.00. The African American community rallied behind Parks and
staged a boycott of the municipal bus service in support of desegregation.
The bus company’s staunch refusal to meet modest demands, including
“first come, first served” seating, was finally superseded by a US Supreme
Court ruling striking down the city’s bus seating ordinances.
In 2005, we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Rosa Parks refusal to give
up her seat on the bus. Her actions fueled the fire that was burning inside
many Black Americans in the United States and started The Modern Civil
Rights Movement. Join the staff of Crossroads Tours as we travel to
Alabama and visit the sites in Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery,
Tuskegee, and Atlanta, GA that preserve and tell of the struggle for
freedom and equality.
Itinerary
Day 1
Tuskegee, Alabama
Day 2
Tuskegee, Alabama
George Washington Carver Museum
Tuskegee Airmen NHS
Booker T. Washington NHS
Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center
Montgomery, Alabama
Civil Rights Memorial
Rosa Parks Library Museum
Selma, Alabama
Brown Chapel AME Church
Martin Luther King Walking Tour
National Voting Rights Museum
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma to Montgomery Trail
Day 3
Birmingham, Alabama
Historic Greyhound Bus Station
Kelly Ingram Park
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Civil Rights District
16th Street Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church
Atlanta, Georgia
Martin Luther King NHS
Day 4
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour Amenities
Roundtrip Motorcoach service
Hotel Accommodations (3 nights)
6 Meals
**Children travel for $190.00 with paying adult
(ages 5-16)
*Reservation Deposit Required
Contact our associates for pricing click here
Tuskegee Airmen NHS
Martin Luther King NHS
Selma to Montgomery Trail
THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT BUS TOUR
October 20-23, 2011
Eighteen months after the Supreme Court ruling in the Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on
the bus. It was December 1, 1955, and Rosa Parks, secretary and youth
director of the local NAACP branch, was riding the Cleveland Avenue bus
home from her job as a seamstress at Montgomery Fair department store.
She sat behind the white section. But at the third stop there was no room to
seat the white people who got on, so the bus driver asked Parks and three
other Black Americans to stand in the back of the bus. After she refused
twice, the driver left the bus and brought back two policemen who arrested
her, ironically for disorderly conduct. At the trial she was found guilty and
fined $10.00. The African American community rallied behind Parks and
staged a boycott of the municipal bus service in support of desegregation.
The bus company’s staunch refusal to meet modest demands, including
“first come, first served” seating, was finally superseded by a US Supreme
Court ruling striking down the city’s bus seating ordinances.
In 2005, we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Rosa Parks refusal to give
up her seat on the bus. Her actions fueled the fire that was burning inside
many Black Americans in the United States and started The Modern Civil
Rights Movement. Join the staff of Crossroads Tours as we travel to
Alabama and visit the sites in Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery,
Tuskegee, and Atlanta, GA that preserve and tell of the struggle for
freedom and equality.
Itinerary
Day 1
Tuskegee, Alabama
Day 2
Tuskegee, Alabama
George Washington Carver Museum
Tuskegee Airmen NHS
Booker T. Washington NHS
Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center
Montgomery, Alabama
Civil Rights Memorial
Rosa Parks Library Museum
Selma, Alabama
Brown Chapel AME Church
Martin Luther King Walking Tour
National Voting Rights Museum
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma to Montgomery Trail
Day 3
Birmingham, Alabama
Historic Greyhound Bus Station
Kelly Ingram Park
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Civil Rights District
16th Street Baptist Church
Bethel Baptist Church
Atlanta, Georgia
Martin Luther King NHS
Day 4
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour Amenities
Roundtrip Motorcoach service
Hotel Accommodations (3 nights)
6 Meals
**Children travel for $190.00 with paying adult
(ages 5-16)
*Reservation Deposit Required
Contact our associates for pricing click here
Tuskegee Airmen NHS
Martin Luther King NHS
Selma to Montgomery Trail
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