Day by Day Itinerary

Day 1 - Atlanta, GA
Board your flight to Atlanta, GA. Upon arrival meet your local Travel Director and transfer to your centrally located hotel. This afternoon visit The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, a museum and cultural institution that connects the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to human rights challenges of today. The museum inspires visitors with immersive exhibitions, dynamic events and conversations, and engagement and education/training programs. Tonight, join your welcome dinner.

Day 2 - Atlanta, GA
This morning, take a tour by following the Civil Rights Walk of Fame, past the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, and proceed to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center. Continue on to view the International World Peace Rose Garden. See the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church (Heritage Sanctuary) and continue to the King Center’s outdoor campus where you can view the crypt of Dr. and Mrs. King, Eternal Flame, Freedom Walkway and Reflecting Pool. Visit Freedom Hall, where you can learn more about Dr. King through exhibits. Later, visit Dr. King’s birth home, at 501 Auburn Avenue, in the residential section of “Sweet Auburn". After lunch, visit the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to learn more about the life, and work, of President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn.

Day 3 - Montgomery, AL

This morning, drive to Montgomery, Alabama. Visit the Rosa Parks Museum, and learn about the life of civil rights icon Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Located at the site where Mrs. Parks was arrested, the museum contains artifacts including the original fingerprint arrest record of Mrs. Parks, a 1950s-era Montgomery city bus, original works of art including statuary and quilts, court documents and police reports, as well as a restored 1955 station wagon (known as a "rolling church") used to transport protesters. Later, Visit the Civil Rights Memorial Center, known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, the city of Montgomery is rich with civil rights history. A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), it is one of Alabama’s premiere civil rights sites and serves as the interpretive center for the Civil Rights Memorial, which honors the martyrs of the movement and inspires visitors to continue the march for racial equity and social justice. Next, visit the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice, this museum and memorial are part of the Equal Justice Initiative's (EJI) goal to advance truth and reconciliation around race in America. “Our nation’s history of racial injustice casts a shadow across the American landscape,” EJI Director Bryan Stevenson explains. “This shadow cannot be lifted until we shine the light of truth on the destructive violence that shaped our nation, traumatized people of color, and compromised our commitment to the rule of law and to equal justice.”

Day 4 - Atlanta / Departure Day

Visit the Dexter Parsonage Museum and experience the actual residence where Dr. King and his young family lived between 1954 and 1960; an Interpretive Center, and the King-Johns Garden for Reflection. The nine-room clapboard Parsonage, built in 1912, has been restored to its appearance when Dr. King and his family lived there. Much of the furniture presently in the the living room, dining room, bedroom and study was actually used by Dr. King. This afternoon, return to Atlanta for your return flight home.