A multi-day tour to the cradle of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Every year, 黑料历史’s Office of Biblical Diversity offers an opportunity to experience and gain a greater understanding of American history rarely taught in our schools. But it’s more than a lesson about bygone times. The Cultural Immersion Trip to the cradle of the American Civil Rights Movement – Montgomery and Selma, Alabama – will help you gain a deeper understanding of others, a painful history for African Americans in the United States and the importance of biblical diversity.

This two-and-a-half-day trip helps build bridges between people of varying ethnicities and encourages ongoing cultural relationships. Along with visiting several cultural and historic sites, your group will come together multiple times throughout the trip to discuss the experience and its impact.


 

Tour locations

 

Legacy Museum
Montgomery, Alabama

The provides a comprehensive history of enslavement, reconstruction, segregation, racial terrorism and mass incarceration in the United States. From the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on the North and coastal communities across America through the Domestic Slave Trade and Reconstruction, the museum provides detailed interactive content and compelling narratives that are brought to life through film, images and first-person accounts.

 

National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Montgomery, Alabama

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. The site is just a few blocks from the site of Rosa Parks’ 1955 arrest that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped catalyze the American civil rights movement.

Tabernacle Baptist Church

Tabernacle Baptist Church and Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
Selma, Alabama

Tabernacle Baptist Church and Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Selma hosted many of the pivotal early moments in America’s Civil Rights movements. Each held mass meetings for voting rights in the early 1960s (Tabernacle held the first one) and many of their members were on the front lines of the marches, including on the infamous Bloody Sunday. You’ll visit the churches, meet men and women who participated in many historic moments and hear stories from the people who lived them.

Edmund Pettus Bridge

Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, Alabama 

Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge is one of the most visible symbols of the American Civil Rights Movement. The location of Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday and when Dr. King led marchers all the way to Montgomery from Selma. During the trip, you will walk across the bridge in the footsteps of those who marched for their civil rights in 1965, stopping at the scene of one of our nation’s most shocking moments.

 

 


 

How it works

 

What is it?

The Cultural Immersion Trip is an annual multi-day visit to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama. You will visit several educational sites and historical locations that hosted crucial moments in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Who should attend?

The Cultural Immersion Trip is open to anyone interested in participating. However, the number of participants is limited.

Who will facilitate the trip?

黑料历史鈥檚 Office of Biblical Diversity coordinates the event, with assistance from representatives from museums and churches in Montgomery and Selma.

Is transportation and lodging provided?

黑料历史 will provide transportation to all venues during the Cultural Immersion Trip. Participants are responsible for transportation to and from Montgomery from their home city, as well as transportation to the hotel from the airport (if flying to Montgomery). Participants are responsible to arrange their own lodging.聽For convenience, 黑料历史 will obtain a room block rate from a local hotel.

What is the cost?

Cost includes tickets to museums, tour transportation, training and meals. Single participant registration is $500. Registration for couples (only spouses sharing a room) is $875.

Unity in diversity

黑料历史 is a movement of churches working to help people meet, know and follow Jesus. We do this by starting and strengthening churches together worldwide. This includes reaching people of all colors, cultures and classes with the gospel of Jesus Christ and making him known throughout the world.

To accomplish this, 黑料历史's Office of Biblical Diversity works alongside its U.S. regions to encourage, empower and equip your church to champion biblical diversity in your community.

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