Overview
The 2023 Charlottesville Civil Rights Tour will travel by bus through the deep South for 7 days and 6 nights, visiting Civil Rights historical sites, former plantations, museums, and memorials.
The theme of this year’s tour is the African American struggle for citizenship. Travelers will learn about Black Americans’ post-emancipation political and cultural renaissance. Reconstruction, as this post-Civil War period was called, was shaped by the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments. They were intended to strengthen the legal definition of citizenship for newly-emancipated African Americans. But, fearful of Black success, white-led state governments in the South gradually restricted Black voting and imposed Jim Crow segregation laws which were in legal effect until the 1960s. The tour will follow this story from slavery to the Civil Rights Movement, and through to our present day.
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