Photo Albums

Students visited multiple campsites used during the Selma to Montgomery March. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, all four campsites used during the historic march for voting rights are in danger of being lost unless more effort is made to preserve them.

Students visit The Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. More than 4,400 African American men, women, and children were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, and beaten to death by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Until now, there had been no national memorial acknowledging the victims of racial terror lynchings.

Students share the lessons and stories learned with each other after visiting The Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Many got emotional in reflection.

The national lynching memorial is a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice 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.

Students share the lessons and stories learned with each other after visiting The Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Many got emotional in reflection.

Students visit the Freedom Rides Museum. While there, they learned about how 21 young people transformed the nation’s history using nonviolent protest methods.

Students pose for a photo in front of the museum, which was once the Montgomery Greyhound Bus Station. It was there that then-student leader John Lewis shouted, “Stand together. Don’t run. Just stand together!” when protestors attacked Freedom Riders and tried to stop the symbolic effort to end segregation.

Students visit the Museum of Alabama, which featured an exhibit on local civil rights efforts and history.

Chase Breaux ’24 studies information detailing the KKK in Alabama within the “Forces of Change” exhibit at the Museum of Alabama.

“Lighting the Way.” A commemorative gaslight outside of the church honors Dr. King, and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement that changed Montgomery, Alabama, and the world.

One stop included a visit to the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church. Much of Montgomery’s early civil rights activity – most famously the 1956 Bus Boycott – was directed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from his office in the lower unit of the church.

The 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.

The Brown Chapel AME Church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and also hosted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1965. Leading the march were the SCLC's Hosea Williams and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) John Lewis.

Students experienced a small part of the march from Selma to Montgomery. The march was a nonviolent demonstration to bring attention to voting rights for people of color. Five months after the march, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

Students experienced a small part of the march from Selma to Montgomery. The march was a nonviolent demonstration to bring attention to voting rights for people of color. Five months after the march, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

Jamari Washington ’22 (left) takes a moment to say a prayer at a grave marked as the “Tomb of the unknown slave, tomb of the unknown soldier,” located at the Civil Rights Memorial Park in Selma.

Students visited multiple campsites used during the Selma to Montgomery March.

After students visit the Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker in Lowndesboro, Alabama, Alex Barr ’22 reads a note about the civil rights activist. Liuzzo traveled to Alabama in March 1965 to help the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with its efforts to register Black voters in Selma. Not long after her arrival, Liuzzo was murdered by members of the KKK while driving a Black man from Montgomery to Selma.

The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery is a monument for the 40 people who died between 1954 and 1968 fighting for equal treatment of all people. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “… we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” line from the famous “I Have a Dream” speech is on display at the memorial.

Paul Haesemeyer '21 (center) joined students for Thanksgiving dinner at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel.

Thanks to generous donations made by Dr. Jim Kamplain ’71, students on the Civil Rights Road Trip got to enjoy a warm Thanksgiving meal together. Items on the menu included turkey, ham, salmon, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh fruit, salad and pie – of course. Thank you, Dr. Kamplain for the delicious food!

Thanks to generous donations made by Dr. Jim Kamplain ’71, students on the Civil Rights Road Trip got to enjoy a warm Thanksgiving meal together. Items on the menu included turkey, ham, salmon, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh fruit, salad and pie – of course. Thank you, Dr. Kamplain for the delicious food!

Thanks to generous donations made by Dr. Jim Kamplain ’71, students on the Civil Rights Road Trip got to enjoy a warm Thanksgiving meal together. Items on the menu included turkey, ham, salmon, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, fresh fruit, salad and pie – of course. Thank you, Dr. Kamplain for the delicious food!