PRE-CONFERENCE TOURS
WEDNESDAY, AUG 7, 2019 | Local Heritage Tour
Fee: $40/per person | CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
This mid-day excursion features some of Jackson’s most treasured historic gems, cultural sites, and African American museums. The event is graciously sponsored by the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University located in Jackson, Mississippi.
1:00 PM Bus Departs from the Westin + Hilton Hotels
1:15 pm Arrive COFO Civil Rights Education Center
2:00 pm Travel to Greyhound Bus Station (1963 Woolworth’s Sit-in Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker)
2:15 pm Freedom Riders Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker
2:30 pm Travel to Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
3:00 pm Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
3:45 pm Depart Evers Home
4:00 PM Bus Arrival/Drop-off at Westin + Hilton Hotels
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 | Heritage Excursion to Hattiesburg, MS
Fee: $40/per person | CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
This half-day excursion features some of Hattiesburg’s finest African American historic sites museums, and cultural treasures. The event is graciously sponsored by the African American Military Museum located in Hattiesburg, MS.
8:00 AM Bus Departs from the Westin + Hilton Hotels
9:45 am Tour of the African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg
11:15 am Lunch at Historic Eureka School Museum
12:00 pm Tour of the St. Paul United Methodist Church
12:30 pm Travel to Kelly Settlement: Vernon Dahmer Home
12:45 pm Interactive discussion with family of Vernon Dahmer
1:30 pm Depart Hattiesburg
3:00 PM Bus Arrival/Drop-off at Westin + Hilton Hotels
POST CONFERENCE TOURS
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019
$125/per person (fee includes lunch and snack breaks)
Mississippi Delta Blues Tour | Click Here to Sign-Up
7:45 AM – 7:00 PM
This FULL-DAY excursion features some of Mississippi’s most iconic rhythm and blues sites and places of African American memory. All of which have given the state it’s soulful sound and flavor. The event is graciously sponsored by the Margaret Walker Center located on the Jackson State University campus in Jackson, Mississippi.
7:45 AM Bus Departs from the Westin + Hilton Hotels
Tour of the Delta Blues Museum
Lunch at The Senator’s Place
Travel to Cleveland, MS
Tour of the Grammy Museum
Travel to Indianola, MS
Tour of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
Travel to Jackson, MS
7:00 PM Bus Arrival/Drop-Off to the Westin + Hilton Hotels
Mississippi Civil Rights Tour | Click Here to Sign-Up
8:45 AM – 6:00 PM
This FULL-DAY excursion features some of Mississippi’s most iconic sites and places of African American memory from the contemporary Civil Rights era. The event is graciously sponsored by the Margaret Walker Center located on the Jackson State University campus in Jackson, Mississippi.
8:45 AM Bus Departs from the Westin + Hilton Hotels
Tour of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home
Travel to Money, MS
Tour of the Bryant’s Grocery/Emmett Till Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker
Travel to Sumner, MS
Lunch at the Sumner Grille
Tour of the Sumner Courthouse and Emmett Till Interpretive Center
Travel to Ruleville (Parchman Penitentiary)
Tour of the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial
Travel to Jackson, MS
6:00 PM Bus Arrival/Drop-Off to the Westin + Hilton Hotels