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PC students tour the South during Civil Rights Maymester trip

July 6, 2009

A group of PC students and professors toured the South from May 10th - May 17th during the Civil Rights Tour Maymester. They visited many historic sites, including the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Memorial, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, among many more.

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Parsonage where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived while minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. home, Atlanta
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quotation, Nashville Public Library
Sixteenth Street Baptish Church, Birmingham, Alabama
Dexter Avenue Baptish Church, Montgomery, Alabama
PC student Chris Bowman in the chapel of Fisk University, Nashville
"Arise, shine" inscription,
Fisk University
Eternal flame at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s tomb, Atlanta
Dr. Rodney Cohen at Fisk University
Civil rights monument, Birmingham, Alabama
WEB Dubois statue,
Fisk University
Civil Rights Memorial outside Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama
"If Not Us, Then Who?" inscription, Nashville Public Library
Cravath Hall, Fisk University
Stax Museum, Memphis
A table in the Civil Rights room of the Nashville Public Library
James H. Meredith statue, University of Mississippi

PC students with Professor Charles Eagles '68, professor of history at the University of Mississippi (in center, back row); Dr. Rodney T. Cohen, Director of Multicultural and Student Activities, first row, second from right; Dr. Booker T. Ingram, Jr., Dana Professor of Political Science, first row, far right.

Photos courtesy of Dr. Molly McGehee, Assistant Professor of English

 

posted by Stacy Dyer '96
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