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$1,650 per person, land only
$375 single room supplement
$250 deposit is due at time of registration.

2024 CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNEY
SATURDAY JAN 20
Atlanta
Canopy Hotel Downtown Atlanta
Dinner on your own
Evening program
SUNDAY JAN 21
Church Services at Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
TENT: Preacher-Senator Raphael Warnock, American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021
Tour Auburn Ave and King Center Neighborhood and Tomb.
Explore the area in which Dr. King was born, grew up, and is buried. See Old Ebenezer Church where three generations of King family preached. End our journey by paying our respects at Dr. Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King’s tomb.
TENT: Discussion with Ambassador Andrew Young
American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
Lunch at Ponce City Market
Montgomery
Equal Justice Initiative’s Memorial to Peace & Justice
Reflect on an often-overlooked tragedy at the first national memorial for victims of lynching and join together to say Kaddish led by our community clergy.
Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum
Explore the evolution of racial oppression from slavery to mass incarceration.
Southern Poverty Law Center Memorial
The four galleries at the Memorial Center focus on the modern civil rights
movement (1954-1968) and contemporary social justice issues.
Evening Dinner
Renaissance, Montgomery, AL
MONDAY JAN 22
Rosa Parks Museum & Memorial
Stand where the Civil Rights movement began and learn about the events
leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa Parks’ arrest.
Lunch in downtown Montgomery
Selma
Tour of historic Selma.
Meet with a survivor from Bloody Sunday and the March from Selma to
Montgomery. Learn about Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his
involvement in the struggle.
Walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Now a National Historic Landmark, the bridge was the site of the brutal Bloody
Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights.
Birmingham
Dinner on your own in downtown Birmingham.
We will provide a list of wonderful local restaurants
Hilton UAB, Birmingham, AL
TUESDAY JAN 23
Introduction of Birmingham’s role in the Civil Rights Movement.
Walking tour of Freedom Park & 16 Street Baptist Church
Meet with a civil rights activist in the 50s and 60s, who faced police dogs and fire
hoses in the park prior to his arrest for protesting.
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the BCRI is a cultural and educational
research center that promotes a comprehensive understanding for the significance of the civil rights developments in Birmingham
Depart for Lunch at Pizitz Food Hall
Depart for Atlanta Airport (7PM flights)

MISSION COSTS
CIVIL RIGHTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 – TUESDAY, JANUARY 23
$1,650 per person/$375 single room supplement
$250 due at registration
Includes:
• Land only package (does not include airfare to/from Atlanta)
• Pre-mission programming and meet-ups
• Books/Resource Guides/Totes
• Hotels for 3 nights (Atlanta/Montgomery/Birmingham)
• Ground transportation
• Snacks and water
• Admission and programming costs
• Staff and trip guides
• Double occupancy (single room supplement is $375)
• Meals:
• Saturday: Dinner on your own
• Sunday: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner included
• Monday: Breakfast/Lunch included; Dinner on your own in Birmingham
• Tuesday: Breakfast/Lunch included
• Meals include entrée and non-alcoholic drink only. Appetizers and desserts are extra. Meals are not Kosher