Itinerary
Contents
Friday, May 25[edit]
Travel to Birmingham, AL
Hotel
- Comfort Inn Airport (2 nights)
Dining
- Irondale Cafe: The original Whistle Stop Cafe
Saturday, May 26[edit]
Birmingham, AL
Breakfast meeting: Technology Training
Sites to Visit
A.M.
- 16th St. Baptist Church
- Kelly Ingram Park
- Civil Rights Museum
P.M.
- Meet with Peggy Heidi, Barbara Shores and Helen Shores Lee, a Jefferson County Circuit Judge and the first African American woman to hold such a post in Alabama.
- Peggy Heidi will take us on a bus tour of Dynamite Hill and we'll see Angela Davis' house.
Dining
Sunday, May 27[edit]
Church (Birmingham, AL) (Cameron Cole)
- Attend church services at the 16th Street Baptist Church
Drive to Montgomery (1.5 hrs.)
- Student Reports on Bus
Dining
- Dinner on Your Own
Hotel
- Embassy Suites (2 nights)
Evening Session
- Reflections with Marcus
Monday May 28[edit]
Montgomery, AL
- Breakfast Reports
Sites to Visit[edit]
- Walking Tour of Montgomery - Slave market; White house of the first Confederacy
- Montgomery-Selma Trail
Dining[edit]
Dinner on your own (we’ll drive to places on bus)
Evening Session[edit]
Reflections with Marcus
Tuesday May 29[edit]
Montgomery, Selma, AL
Sites to Visit
- Southern Poverty Law Center 9AM-11 AM (Leave to walk at 8:30)
Drive to Selma (1.5-2 hrs)
- Edmund Pettis Bridge
- George Washington Carver Housing Project
- National Voting Rights Museum
- Lunch downtown Selma
Drive to Waveland (5 hours)
- Discussion of Rubin's chapter
- Student Reports on Bus
- Oral History Training
- Film
- Check into Hotel
- Dinner
Evening Session
- Reflections With Marcus
Hotel
- Hollywood Casino, Bay St. Louis (3 nights)
Wed, May 30[edit]
Hancock County Library (Waveland, MS)
Day 1 Activities
- Arrive at Bay St. Louis Library 9 a.m.
- Welcome: Library, City and/or County officials
- Introductions
- Orientation by Library Staff
- Overview of projects and library personnel liaisons
- Handouts, maps, etc.
- Lunch: Po-boys provided by the library
- City Tour. Staff member: Mary Perkins
Thurs., May 31[edit]
Hancock County Public Library
Day 2: Service Projects
I. Oral History Project
- Staff Liaison: Jamie Elston, Lawrence Thomas
- Set Up: One station in the library meeting room
- Second station in the children’s room
Staff Members available for oral histories. *Linda McKay, Asst Director, Operations
- Mary Perkins, Public Relations Officer
- Jamie Elston, Asst, Director Public Services
- Patrick McKee, Reference Librarian
- Myra Haynes, Technical Services Manager
- Adrienne Bradley, Customer Services Manager
- Michael P Larroux, Technical Services Assistant
- Sue Favre, Customer Service Assistant
- Paul Eddy, Deputy Director
- Charles Gray, Local Historian
- Note: These people either lost their homes, had water go through their homes, walked through water during the storm to get to safety, and/or had a part in saving the headquarters library so that it could reopen to the public, etc. Paul can give a perspective on having known us prior to the storm and coming to HCLS as Deputy Director after the storm.
II. Document Projects A. Scanning project.
- Staff Liaison: Linda McKay and Mary Perkins
- Set Up: Students will use two scanners available for this project.
- Documents to be scanned: Library legal documents, 1934 scrapbook, first minute books of the library.
B. Scrapbook Project
- Staff Liaison: Prima Plauche’
- Set Up: Scrapbook items, scrap books, paper trimmers will be set up in the Board Room for students to help sort, cut, & file library scrapbook items and place in appropriate scrapbooks.
C. Photograph Project
- Staff Liaison: Prima Plauche’, Mary Perkins
- Set Up: Students can help organize print photographs into albums at a station in the workroom
D. Postcard Project
- Staff Liaison: Paul Eddy
- Set Up: Students will insert postcards of local historic buildings and locales into archival envelopes. Students will use the Mississippi/Louisiana Collection and the Internet to research subjects of the postcards.
6 p.m. Independent Film Festival
- Staff Liaison: Jamie Elston
- Set up: Meeting room
Students can assist with and attend the Library’s Independent Film Festival activities including: setting up the room, greeting attendees, handing out film festival programs, making popcorn, etc. Student attendance is part of a grant awarded to the library to purchase DVD’s and host a series of independent films.
Friday, June 1[edit]
Hancock County Public Library
- Presentation by Charles Gray, Local Historian
- Continue projects
Leave for New Orleans
Site Visits
- Laundromat!
Hotel
- Clarion Collection Royal, New Orleans (2 nights)
Saturday June 2[edit]
New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
- Meet with staff at ACORN.
- Tour Lower 9th ward and other important neighborhoods
- R&R in the afternoon
Sunday, June 3[edit]
New Orleans/Cleveland
- Attend Church services at Greater St. Stephens Baptist (Bishop Paul Morton’s church)
- Leave for Cleveland after church (5 hours)
- Lunch on the Road
- Discussion of Hattery & Smith
- Student Reports on Bus:
- View LaLee's Kin documentary on drive to Cleveland
- Arrive in Cleveland approx. 5 pm.
- Dinner (Group dinner as few restaurants open)
- Evening reflection (Marcus)
Hotel
- Holiday Inn Express (2 nights)
Monday, June 4[edit]
Cleveland, MS (Luther Brown)
Site Visits[edit]
- Meet in the Charles Capps Archive and Museum seminar room at 8am
- Discussion of LaLee’s Kin
- Introduction and orientation to the Delta
- Depart on tour at about 9:30. Tour through the Delta, focusing on cultural heritage as a basis for community and economic development and on the economic/political issues facing small towns in the region beginning with Mound Bayou
- stop at Po’ Monkey’s Lounge (see http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2006/brown/1a.htm)
- Cleveland
- Shaw
- Indianola
- Greenwood
- 12:00 noon Lunch at Hoover’s Grocery with Senator David Jordan, Dr. Marvin Haire, and perhaps others.
- Walking tour of the Baptist Town region and the Hoover’s “Back in the Day Museum.”
- 2PM Viking Range meeting at the Alluvian Hotel, discussion of economic development in Greenwood
- 3:00 Robert Johnson’s grave site
- Money and the Emmett Till Story
- Fanny Lou Hamer’s grave
- Return to Cleveland by 5PM
- 5PM Dinner at The Senator’s Place, owned by State Senator Willie Simmons. Buffet.
- 6:30PM After dinner presentation by your speaker in the Jacobs room of Ewing Hall
- 8PM Po’ Monkey’s Lounge with live Blues by Bill “Howlin’ Madd” Perry and his Band
Tuesday June 5[edit]
Cleveland, MS
Site Visits[edit]
Parchman 10 AM
Hotel[edit]
- Gold Strike Casino & Resort Robinsonville, MS (1/2 nights)
Wednesday June 6[edit]
Clarksdale, Tunica, Memphis
Hotel[edit]
- Shack Up Inn (1 night)
Thursday June 7[edit]
Drive to Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Friday June 8[edit]
Home by mid afternoon