JOURNEY ALONG THE CIVIL RIGHTS TRAIL

• If you’ve always wanted to explore America and the southern states, Memphis is a great place to start your trip! You can’t help falling in love with the city, known for its musical history of rock ‘n’ roll, soul and the blues.
• Legendary performers like Albert King, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, B.B. King who influenced all graced these streets, and you’ll be instantly swept up in its vibe.
• Arriving early? Don’t miss the chance to explore, just be back in time for our Welcome Reception.
• It’s here you’ll meet your Travel Director, fellow travelers and future friends, all eager for the adventure that awaits and the characters you’ll meet on this rich history tour.

• Today is all about exploring the city’s treasures through a local’s lens on our African American History and Culture Tour.
• With our Local Specialist, you’ll embark on a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience exploring the struggles and triumphs, music and movements, legends and heroes and their tireless fight for human rights both past and present.
• Today it’s home to the National Civil Rights Museum. Take your time exploring this interactive space and its eye-opening exhibits that showcase five centuries of history, leaving you with a better understanding of the mark it’s left on the world today.
• The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum housed in an antebellum home is up next. A shocking and moving experience, you’ll gain incredible insight into the slave trade, learn about the network of secret routes and safe houses and those who fought to free those enslaved.
• Your Memphis sightseeing continues at The Historic Mason Temple where, the day before his assassination.
• Interactive, sensory and fun, you’ll hear the stories and, of course, music as you make your way around the museum.
• You’ll feel good knowing your MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience helps support the Soulsville Foundation, educating and inspiring future artists to reach their dreams.

Included Experience: African American History Tour, Visit the National Civil Rights Museum, and Explore the Stax Museum of American Music

• With the sound of soul still firmly in your memory, depart Memphis this morning and travel through the Mississippi Delta, hitting stops along the Mississippi Blues Trail and the Mississippi Freedom Trail.
• Heading down Highway 61 for the next leg of our Civil Rights Tour, we’ll Dive Into Culture in Clarksdale starting at the Delta Blues Museum, leaving you inspired by the musicians that kicked off the blues genre and the passionate locals keeping it alive today.
• Enjoy an exclusive lunch at Ground Zero Blues Club® including a performance from a local Blues musician.
• Further south, we’ll make a stop in Greenwood, a hub for Civil Rights activity in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Finally, we will make a stop at the Emmett Till Interpretive Center for a guided tour before arriving in Jackson where you can enjoy an evening of leisure and rest.

Included Experience: Explore The Delta Blues Museum

• Today MAKE TRAVEL MATTER®  as you visit the COFO Civil Rights Education Center, formerly the headquarters of the Movement in Mississippi.
• Later you will meet an archivist from the Margaret Walker Center (MWC) at Jackson State University, the center seeks to preserve and honor Margaret Walker’s academic, artistic, and activist legacy through archival collections, exhibits, and public programs.
• Then MAKE TRAVEL MATTER®  as you follow the stories of Emmett Till and so many others, which are illustrated through the eight interactive galleries of the incredible Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
• Through personal stories and interactive displays, it provides a sobering look into the systematic oppression of Black Mississippians and their fight for equality between 1945 and 1970.
• Next, you’ll make your way to Birmingham and the rest of the day is free for you to explore on your own.

Included Experience: Visit the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

• With a full day of sightseeing in Birmingham ahead, your Local Specialist will help paint a vivid picture of the city Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once described as “probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States”.
• Starting at the top of Red Mountain you’ll Dive into Culture, as our expert Local Specialist guide shares their passion for the city’s key sights.
• There’s time to explore Vulcan Park and Museum before heading back into the city to see the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
• Then visit Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
• After lunch, head on a driving tour and see Birmingham jail followed by Dynamite Hill, Linn Park, Freedom Riders attack site, and the Black Business District.
• Under the guidance of Alabama’s talented Carlton Reese Choir, you’ll learn about the importance of song and music to African American communities in the South.

Included Experience: Visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Experience the Carlton Reese Choir

• As we take to the road this morning, you’ll no doubt reflect on the significance of our next destination, Selma.
• You’ll start today’s journey with an incredible insight into the Civil Rights Movement with a local activist and speaker.
• Our next stop is the Tabernacle Baptist Church.
• End the day paying respects at the Lowndes Interpretive Center, dedicated to those who peacefully marched the Selma-Montgomery route, before arriving at our home for the next two nights, Montgomery.

Included Experience: Discover Selma with an Activist Guide

• Waking up in Alabama’s capital city, you’ll appreciate taking the time to get to know its history while experiencing its modern-day buzz.
• Best known as the center of the movement, we’ll visit some of the city’s most influential museums.
• We start the day’s adventures at the Legacy Museum learning about the horrific story of tens of thousands of African Americans trafficked during the 19th century.
• Next up is Court Square before reaching the Rosa Parks Museum.
• Before the day draws to a close, we make our final stop at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
• Later, enjoy a group dinner at historic Bricklayers Hall, at 530 South Union Street in Montgomery, Alabama is a two-story, flat-roofed, brick office building and union hall.

• Exclusive to Trafalgar, today is all about a true warm Southern welcome at this Be My Guest experience brunch of her favorite dishes using locally grown produce and recipes from agricultural scientist George Washington Carver.
• You’ll appreciate the hard work and passion as you learn how Sandy and her husband Harvey lovingly restored their mansion built in 1855 and hear stories about what it means to be African American owners of a historic property that was once an antebellum estate.
• Reaching our last destination, your time here begins with Atlanta sightseeing, starting with a moving walk along the International Civil Rights Walks of Fame, featuring national icons including Rosa Parks, Reverend Jesse Jackson and President Jimmy Carter.
• It’s our last night together, so no doubt there will be a few tears as we share a hearty Farewell Dinner, plenty of stories and toast the last eight incredible days.

Included Experience: Brunch at an Antebellum Home

• As your south USA tour comes to a memorable end, the travel highlight of this trip will no doubt be one final tribute to the Civil Rights hero himself, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Today we will learn even more about his story starting at his birthplace, see where he played as a child and hear his voice in the church where he shaped both hearts and minds.
• Our last stop of the trip is the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park to pay our respects at the place he was laid to rest.
• We will return to the Atlanta hotel by noon; departing to Atlanta International Airport by 1pm.
• Please note flights should be booked for no earlier than 3pm.