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Bus Tour Schedule

June 7-15, 2008
Tentative Schedule

 

June 7  
5:00 a.m.  Depart from Beaver Falls Sr. High School
1701 8th Ave.
2:30 p.m. Joe DeLaine
Levine Museum of the New South
200 East Seventh St.
Charlotte, NC
5:30 p.m. Dinner with Winnie Robinson
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church 
1616 Kings Rd.
Shelby, NC
Overnight Microtel Inn & Suites
1024 Woodruff Rd.
Greenville, SC 29607
864-297-3811

June 8  
7:30 a.m.  Depart from hotel
10:35 a.m.  MLK Center 
  450 Auburn Ave., NE
12:00 p.m.  Lunch
1:30 p.m.  Civil Rights Panel Discussion
Georgia State University
Moderator: Glenn Eskew
Panelists: Juanita Abernathy & Rev. C.T. Vivian
4:00 p.m. Underground Atlanta
Depart for Montgomery
Overnight Drury Inn & Suites
1124 Eastern Blvd.
Montgomery, AL 36117
334-273-1101

June 9
8:00 a.m. Depart from hotel
9:00 a.m. Lowndes County Interpretive Center
10:30 a.m. Rev. Frederick Reese
Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church
1548 Le Grande St.
Possible drive to Marion (Lunch en route)
Selma Tour with Joanne Bland
3:30 p.m. National Voting Rights Museum 
1012 Water Ave.
4:30 p.m. Depart for Montgomery
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Viola Liuzzo Memorial
6:30 p.m. Dinner at Martha's
458 Sayre St.
Overnight Montgomery

June 10
8:45 a.m. Depart from hotel
9:15 a.m. Civil Rights Memorial & Visitors Center
SPLC
400 Washington Ave.
10:30 a.m. Montgomery sites (Photo Op)
Dexter Ave. King Memorial Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Dexter Parsonage
Trinity Lutheran Church
Holt St. Baptist Church
E.D. Nixon home
11:30 a.m. Lunch at Sophia's BBQ Pit
1055 Adams Ave.
1:30 p.m. Rosa Parks Museum
252 Montgomery St.
Reflections on the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A Conversation with Mrs. Johnnie Carr
3:30 p.m. Depart for Birmingham
Dinner On your own
Overnight La Quinta Inn
513 Cahaba Park Circle
Birmingham, AL 35242
205-995-9990

June 11
8:30 a.m. Depart from hotel
9:15 a.m. Chris McNair
McNair Studios
45 6th Ave. South
10:45 a.m. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
520 16th St.
Kelly Ingram Park
12:00 p.m. Lunch at LaVase
328 16th St. North
2:00 p.m. 16th Ave. Baptist Church
1530 6th Ave. North
3:00 p.m. Depart for Oxford
6:30 p.m. Tour of Ole Miss
Overnight Drury Inn & Suites - Memphis South
735 Goodman Rd. West
Horn Lake, MS 38637

June 12
8:00 a.m. Depart from hotel
9:00 a.m. National Civil Rights Museum
450 Mulberry St.
11:30 a.m. Lunch on Beale St.
1:00 p.m. Depart for Little Rock
3:30 p.m. Minnijean Brown Trickery
Thelma Mothershed Wair
Little Rock 9 Visitor's Center
2125 W. 14st St.
LC & Daisy Bates House
"Testament" Little Rock 9 Statue at the Capital Building
Dinner in Little Rock
Return to Memphis
Overnight Memphis

June 13
8:00 a.m. Depart from hotel
Mason Temple
930 Mason St.
9:30 a.m. Rev. Samuel Kyles
Monumental Baptist Church
11:15 a.m. Lunch at Interstate BBQ
1:00 p.m. Depart for Alex Haley House & Museum
2:15 p.m. Tour of Alex Haley House
Depart for Nashville
Free time in Nashville (Oprymills Mall)
433 Oprymills Dr.
Overnight Microtel Inn
100 Coley Davis Ct.
Nashville, TN 37221
615-662-0004

June 14
9:00 a.m. Depart from hotel
9:30 a.m. Rev. James Lawson
Civil Rights Room
Nashville Public Library
11:00 a.m. Depart for Cincinnati (Lunch en route)
6:30 p.m. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Greater New Light Baptist Church
710 N. Fred Shuttlesworth Circle
Dinner
Overnight Ramada Inn
800 West 8th St.
Cincinnati, OH 45203
513-241-8660

June 15
8:00 a.m. Depart from hotel
1:00 p.m. William & Renee Rowell
"Picnic Lunch" at Clearview Golf Club
8410 Lincoln St. SE
Canton, OH
3:00 p.m. Depart for Beaver Falls
4:30 p.m. Arrive at Beaver Falls Sr. High School