Upward Bound students are traveling from Michigan State University through Alabama and Georgia to learn about civil rights history and more! This picture above takes place during the famous protests in Selma, Alabama.
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil rights. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Moton Field - Home of the Tuskegee Airmen
First, if you have not seen the movie The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) with Lawrence Fishburn, Cuba Gooding Jr., and many other great actors, rent it!!! You will learn a lot about what we saw this morning - well, at least the Hollywood version. We watched the movie as our bus took us from Atlanta to Tuskegee and so our arrival at Moton Field just after it ended was pretty amazing. The field was home to an "experiment" to train the first non-white Army pilots for the U.S. Army. Many did not want to see them succeed, but the Tuskegee Airmen were some of the most decorated pilots of WWII.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
More Pictures from our Morning Civil Rights Tour
The resting place of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King
The man on this stained glass is Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
Center for Civil & Human Rights
Much more coming in blogs and our vlog...
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