The Freedom Summer 2008 Study Tour is a 14-day intensive IU South Bend History class wherein 19 students journey to the U.S. South and encounter the people who made the Civil Rights Movement possible. Started by Dr. Lester Lamon in 2000, this academic experience is now led by Dr. Monica Tetzlaff. Each student will play an important role in the team, such as counting fellow students at every stop or unloading luggage.
A full academic day at IU South Bend on Saturday May 10 begins the trip. Then, on May 11, the group will travel by Royal Excursions bus to the following places: Memphis, Tennessee; the Mississippi Delta; Jackson, Mississippi; Selma, Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama; Albany, GA; Birmingham, Alabama; and Nashville, Tennessee.
The Freedom Summer class of 2008 will meet local leaders like Charles MacLaurin, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer in Ruleville and Indiananola, Mississippi. (See MacLaurin talking to us in 2004 in photo above). MacLaurin was a young man from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s and he creatively channeled his anger over segregation and second class status for African Americans into organizing a nonviolent movement for change. He will spend a day with the IU South Bend students taking them to see places like the site where a Freedom School was held and then burned down and also the jail where he was held for violating segregation laws. Our day in the Delta is just one example of the Freedom Summer trip.
Students will also visit eight different Civil Rights museums and retrace civil rights protest march routes through the downtowns of all of the cities they visited. They will keep a journal of each day, comparing museums and speakers and simply recording their impressions of the South today, particularly race relations. Students will give presentations on different people and places in the movement, presentations they have prepared in advance. Finally, Students will learn about leadership from local Civil Rights leaders who made a difference, and will come back to IU South Bend on May 24 and contribute their leadership to the Michiana area.
A full academic day at IU South Bend on Saturday May 10 begins the trip. Then, on May 11, the group will travel by Royal Excursions bus to the following places: Memphis, Tennessee; the Mississippi Delta; Jackson, Mississippi; Selma, Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama; Albany, GA; Birmingham, Alabama; and Nashville, Tennessee.
The Freedom Summer class of 2008 will meet local leaders like Charles MacLaurin, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer in Ruleville and Indiananola, Mississippi. (See MacLaurin talking to us in 2004 in photo above). MacLaurin was a young man from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s and he creatively channeled his anger over segregation and second class status for African Americans into organizing a nonviolent movement for change. He will spend a day with the IU South Bend students taking them to see places like the site where a Freedom School was held and then burned down and also the jail where he was held for violating segregation laws. Our day in the Delta is just one example of the Freedom Summer trip.
Students will also visit eight different Civil Rights museums and retrace civil rights protest march routes through the downtowns of all of the cities they visited. They will keep a journal of each day, comparing museums and speakers and simply recording their impressions of the South today, particularly race relations. Students will give presentations on different people and places in the movement, presentations they have prepared in advance. Finally, Students will learn about leadership from local Civil Rights leaders who made a difference, and will come back to IU South Bend on May 24 and contribute their leadership to the Michiana area.
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