Join Carleton’s Rebecca Brückmann, an Associate Professor of History specializing in African American History, on a retrospective journey of the Black Freedom Movement from Alabama, through Louisiana and Mississippi, to Tennessee.
Your journey begins in Birmingham, Alabama, where the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church shocked the nation and drew outrage that crossed racial lines. Walk across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge and learn about “Bloody Sunday,” when voting rights marchers were violently confronted by law enforcement personnel. Continue into Louisiana and visit the Whitney Plantation, a museum dedicated to the history of slavery; and explore the city of New Orleans, including a visit to Congo Square, the birthplace of jazz. Your journey concludes in Memphis, Tennessee, with a visit to the Lorraine Motel, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination and today the location of the National Civil Rights Museum.