Photos

Here you will find selected daily photos for each day. Photos will be group shots, head shots of significant people, historical places, and candids. More photos are available on the Flickr site. These are selected daily photos because I did not want to overwhelm visitors to the site with too many photos. Check out the rest of the photos here!

: Hannah and Kenzie playing the ice breaker game.

: Jessica H. and Kasey listening to Professor Campbell explaining the rules on the trip.

: Professor Alex Hines giving advice about southern mannerisms before we leave.

: Joe Morse sharing his experiences in the South in 1964. He will be traveling with us on the trip and revisiting a few of the places he worked in 1964.

: Hard-thinking students Jessica H., Tyler, Sarah M. and Hannah.

: Professor Tomas Tolvaisas, Joe Morse, and Professor Alex Hines.

: Waiting to eat and getting to know everyone. (Left to right: Trisha, Haley, Samantha, Kasey, and Joe).

Pre-trip meeting photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: Later, Winona, we’ll see you in two weeks.

: Bus driver Chris lays down the safety rules of the bus.

: It was nice to stop for a few minutes and enjoy the views of green Kentucky fields…but no horses!

: Waffle Houses are very popular in the South.

: Viewing the Epilogue Room at the Green McAdoo Center in Clinton, Tenn. (Left to right): Sarah M. Anderson, Luke Stahlmann, Samantha Paulson, and Raymond Shoup.

: Magnolia trees and flowers are a staple of southern nature.

: Discussing and learning about Civil Rights issues at Highlander.

: Tyler Stern, acting out a skit about intergenerational organization.

: Rocking chairs are also a staple of southern culture.

: The Highlander main building.

: Group photo at Highlander, a beautiful place. (Photo Credit: Tracey Gilbert)

Day 1 and 2 photos posted above. Read the post here!

: Our first look at Birmingham.

: (Photo credit: George Rudolph).

: Left to right: Jessica E., Raymond, Trisha, and Kasey

Day 3 photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, to whom the institute is dedicated to

: Kelly Ingram Park as it stands today. It’s hard to imagine that a beautiful park was once the site of much violence in the fight for civil rights.

: A representation of a water hose, but “not completely accurate” (Barry McNealy). Statue designers did not want the water hoses that sprayed people in the 1960s to be connected to violence.

: The other half of the water hose monument.

: Before integration, this bench would have been marked “Colored.”

: The monument dedicated to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson,

: 16th Street Baptist Church as it stands today.

: Inside the church.

: The group on the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church. (Photo credit: Ahmad Ward).

: Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr.

: Statue of three ministers praying.

: We are walking on the “Freedom Walk.”

Day 4 photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: Roscoe was our tour guide around Meridian, his hometown.

: The hotel of E.F. Young and his family, which was in operation during the movement and the only hotel that African Americans could stay at in Meridian. Roscoe hopes the city will restore it instead of tearing it down.

: The Temple Theater in downtown Meridian.

: Joe Morse stands on the now vacant lot where the Meridian Freedom School once stood.

: We accidentally drove over this manhole/culvert and the cement broke. The city of Meridian is very historic and aging.

: We braved the Mississippi sun and listened patiently while Roscoe Jones told us about the Freedom School in Meridian.

: We listened to Sadie Clark Martin and Richard Coleman tell their stories and also enjoyed delicious cake that Sadie made for us.

: This is Louise Smith, George Smith’s wife, who spoke at the tribute.

: We got to engage with others at the tribute who came from Indiana, New York, Mississippi and Alabama.

Day 5 photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: A beautiful day for a caravan and to honor Civil Rights workers.

: Jessica H., Kasey, Jessica E. and Trisha outside of First Union Baptist Church, waiting for the caravan to begin.

: We sang freedom songs like “This Little Light” and “Oh Freedom” at the First Union Baptist Church. Left to right: Haley, Raymond, Nick, Jessica E., Trisha (next to Jess), Tyler, Casey, and Sarah M.

: Three charter buses, police and sheriff cars, and over twenty vehicles, lead the caravan around the Mississippi countryside near Meridian and Philadelphia, Miss.

: The entire caravan stopped at the Lauderdale County courthouse. The crowd was really fired up after stopping here.

: It was a hot sweltering day as the crowd gathered around the gravesite to honor James Chaney.

: Our last stop was the intersection on Rock Cut Road where the murders were committed.

: Nearly every county courthouse in Mississippi has a statue of a confederate soldier outside of the building.

: There were four carousel horses outside of Meridian businesses. They used to be apart of a carousel that sat in the Highland Park.

Day 6 photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: Mt. Nebo choir singing at the church service on Sunday.

: Both men are deacons of the church.

: Left to right: Joanne Bland, Annie Pearl Avery and Lynda Lowery.

: Once again, we found ourselves taking the same path that thousands of others took during March 1963 in Selma, Ala.

: Brown Chapel Church in Selma, Ala. where many civil rights meetings took place.

: Inside Brown Chapel, the choir was practicing so we didn’t stay long.

: A rock outside of the Brown Chapel Church. Joanne Bland told us we could take one and we would have a little bit of history because that’s where the crowd marched.

: When we crossed the bridge, we were on the movie set and so naturally, started taking pictures and looking for Oprah and Brad Pitt (producers). After the movie security guards kicked us off, we sang “Aint gonna let no security turn us around.”

: A majority of Selma’s African American population lives in housing projects like this one.

Day 7 posted above. Read the post here!

: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church still stands today and is still in use as a church. Unfortunately, we were not able to go inside of the church.

: As you can see, today’s buses are a large contrast to the buses of the Civil Rights era.

: It was pretty cool to see the inside of a 1950s and 60s era bus.

: This is the street where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

: Group photo at the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Law Poverty Center. Far right to the group is Georgette Norman.

: This was the site of the mob that the freedom riders were greeted with when they came into Montgomery.

: We also went to First Baptist Church, which is Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s church.

: If you look closely, the inscription says, “This do in remembrance of me.” All Baptist churches have this inscribed on their communion tables.

: We also stopped at the Alabama state capital building, but did not go inside. We also discovered a statue that is dedicated to James Marion Sims, the father of modern gynecology, outside of the building.

Day 8 photos posted above. Read the post here!

: The Equal Justice Initiative welcomed us to their center. We got a tour of the building as well as learned about what they do and possible internships here.

: EJI has memorials of the slave trades that took place in Montgomery. This is one of many signs in the center of the city and there is also a fountain to signify that the slave trade happened in that exact spot.

: Our tour guide for the SNCC property, John Jackson, who helped organize the Black Panther Party and SNCC. Left to right: Sarah L., Jessica H, Professor Campbell, Elbert Means (Civil Rights worker), and Hunter.

: The general store on the SNCC property.

: A remnant of the original SNCC house grounds, a solitary gas pump stands alone.

: Lowndes County Courthouse, many people went here trying to register to vote.

: We stopped at the Lowndes County Interpretative Center and the outdoor park was dedicated to Tent City, a place where families moved to during marches or simply because they were evicted off their land by white landowners.

: The sun was beating down on us as we walked around the Tent City Trail.

: Jessica H. found her footprint size to walk along the others in the Selma to Montgomery marches, in the Lowndes County Interpretative Center.

Day 9 photos posted above. Read the post here!

: Left to right: Hannah, Samantha, Kasey B., Nick, and Casey S. singing freedom songs at the conference.

: It was pretty easy to get caught up in singing various freedom songs throughout the day.

: Left to right: Bob Moses, leader of SNCC, Dave Dennis, director of CORE in Meridian, Miss., and Taylor Branch discuss the historic importance of the Civil Rights Movement and what was gained and what was not gained.

: Left to right: Charlie Cobb, SNCC activist, and Marion Wright Edelman, education activist, discuss the historic importance of the Civil Rights Movement.

: It was hard to keep quiet when the Freedom Singers were on stage.

: The moderator, Dr. Frank Smith, asked all the veterans to come up to the front and introduce themselves. Joe waited in line for a good 20 minutes before he got to the microphone.

: Joe finally got to the microphone and told the audience a little bit about him during his time in Mississippi.

: The audience was engaged with the speakers and the freedom singers.

: The mayor of Jackson, Tony Yarber, also made an appearance.

: The COFO office at Jackson State University.

: We found a restaurant on Jackson State University campus called “The Penguin.” The most expensive item on the menu was a $28 steak with mashed potatoes and the least expensive item was two hotdogs and a “mound of fries.” The sky was also very dark and threatening, we thought we might see our first Mississippi tornado, but it poured rain and got very windy.

Day 10 and 11 photos posted above. Day 10 blog here! Day 11 blog here!

: A few of B.B. King’s guitars at the museum in Indianola, Miss.

: Andy learning how to play blues music at the B.B. King museum.

: Haley learning how to play blues music on a guitar.

: Fannie Lou Hamer’s grave at the park and garden dedicated to her in Ruleville.

: If you follow Highway 61 North, you will get to Winona, Minn. from Cleveland, Miss.

: The cotton gin shed at Dockery Farms.

: Dockery Farms was once the biggest plantation in Mississippi. They owned over 28,000 square acres of land.

: We went to a jazz, hip-hip, and blues music fest on Friday night and danced for two hours. Left to right: Raymond, Sarah L. and Nick.

: The music fest also featured local artists. This is Tira and her friends, a local rapper from Jackson.

Day 12 photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: Sam, Kasey, and Trisha enjoying the rain at the Mississippi capitol. We got stuck in the rain many times on this trip.

: An interesting sign in Jackson. There were other signs, without the little character, warning of littering fines up to $3,000.

: Part of Alexander Hall at Jackson State University.

: Bullet holes in the wall of Alexander Hall at Jackson State University from the anti-war protest in 1970.

: Haley, Trisha, Kenzie, Jessica E., Samantha, Jordan, Kasey, and Hannah ready for the banquet.

: Our meal at the banquet was baked chicken, salmon, rice, and broccoli with pecan pie or cheesecake for dessert.

: The Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Banquet. The banquet was sold out by Friday, June 27. Tickets were $100 for adults and $25 for students.

: Julian Bond speaking at the Freedom Summer Banquet.

: Actor and Civil Rights activist Danny Glover at the Freedom Summer Banquet.

Day 13 photos posted above. Read the blog here!

: The museum looks small, but inside it is a maze of exhibits all about the civil rights movements.

: This large bronze statue by Michael Pavlovsky, greeted visitors to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. It is called “Movement to Overcome” and the theme is “climbing towards equality and justice.” If you look carefully, you can see an outline of the United States.

: Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel was Dr. King’s room. I apologize for the reflection in the photo, as the room was behind glass, but if you think about it, people are being reflected to this moment in history, which makes for a pretty cool photo.

: This is the balcony where Dr. King stood when he was shot.

: The short window to the right of the photo is where James Earl Ray stood when he murdered Dr. King. There is an entire exhibit in that building too, exploring the technicalities of how he planned it.