Blessings Abound on Fourth Annual Civil Rights Tour
Logging over 2,000 miles in six action-packed days, thirty-one students (sophomores and juniors) and eight chaperones from WLHS traced the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 2017 WLHS Civil Rights Tour. For more photos posted on Facebook, click here. Cities highlighted on the trip included: Atlanta, Georgia, Selma and Montgomery in Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee.
The tour left Wednesday afternoon, April 12, in a coach bus that drove overnight to Atlanta. The group visited the King Center and toured inside Dr. King’s birth house. The next day, en route to Alabama, they stopped at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. They then traveled to Selma, Alabama. to learn about “Blood Sunday” and walk over the Edmund Pettus bridge on the footprints to freedom tour.
In Montgomery, Alabama., the group visited the Rosa Parks museum, Dr. King’s parsonage, and the church where he once pastored. On Easter Sunday, April 16, the group worshiped at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Birmingham, Alabama after touring Kelly Ingram Park the night before. On the way home, they ended with a guided tour of the Lorraine Hotel with the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. where Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Throughout the tour, the group had nightly small group meetings, devotions, and kept journals of their experiences as they learned of Dr. King’s commitment to non-violence in promoting civil rights.
The tour is the fourth annual trip for a diverse group of students from WLHS intended to connect them to Civil Rights leaders who led positive change and to inspire the students to become agents of change. The tour seeks to transform and strengthen our students' understanding of our oneness in Christ while celebrating the richness of our diverse experiences.In Montgomery, Alabama., the group visited the Rosa Parks museum, Dr. King’s parsonage, and the church where he once pastored. On Easter Sunday, April 16, the group worshiped at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Birmingham, Alabama after touring Kelly Ingram Park the night before. On the way home, they ended with a guided tour of the Lorraine Hotel with the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. where Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Throughout the tour, the group had nightly small group meetings, devotions, and kept journals of their experiences as they learned of Dr. King’s commitment to non-violence in promoting civil rights.
