An annual civil rights historic bus tour retraces the steps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights heroes. The tour is hosted by the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights, in collaboration with the Montgomery County Public Libraries, the African American Employees Association, the Lincoln Park Historical Foundation and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The bus tour leaves Rockville on April 3 and returns on April 10. The tour will travel to Greensboro, N.C.; Atlanta, Ga.; Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, Alabama; Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Little Rock, Ark., and Jackson, Miss., to retrace the Freedom Trail to learn about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, voter’s rights, Little Rock Nine and other significant events of the Civil Rights Movement.
Highlights on the tour include the Birth Home Museum of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the new National Center for Civil and Human Rights; the Civil Rights Memorial Museum; the International Civil Rights Center and Museum; the Rosa Parks Museum; the Freedom Rides Museum; the National Voting Rights Museum; the famed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge; the Central High School, Fisk University, Medgar Evers’ Home and the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
A pre-tour meeting will be held about one week prior to the tour in the Office of Human Rights Conference and Mediation Center, Suite 330, 21 Maryland Ave., Rockville. At least one member of each group is required to attend this meeting. A deposit for half the tour fee is due as soon as possible. Registration information and cost of the tour is available at www.montgomerycountymd.gov/humanrights/. Contact Beverly Marshall in the Office of Human Rights at beverly.marshall@montgomerycountymd.gov or 240-777-8479.