Great Heroes
2024 Great Heroes Tour
July 16-19, 2024
Day 1, Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- 05:00 a.m. -We will meet at the Marbles Recreation Center, check in, load up and prepare for our Adventure!
- 6:00 a.m. - We will leave for our four-day Great Heroes tour.
7:45 a.m. - We will make a stop in Jackson, Mississippi for Breakfast and keep rolling!
- 01:00 p.m. -We will stop in Birmingham, Alabama, for lunch and will take photos at the 16th Avenue Baptist Church site of the infamous Civil Rights Church Bombing.
- 2:30 p.m. – We will leave for Atlanta, Ga.
- 05:00 p.m. -We will check into the Holiday Inn, grab some supper, write in our Journals, maybe swim, and call it a night.
- 7:15 p.m. – We will have dinner at a Restaurant in Atlanta.
- 9:30 p.m. – Bed down and lights out.
Day 2, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 (Atlanta, Ga)
- 06:30 a.m. - We will rise, get breakfast at the hotel and leave for tours of Atlanta historic sites.
- 09:00 a.m. – We will arrive at the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Change for our Tour that will include the tomb of Dr. King and the King Center and Book Store.
- 12:00 p.m. We will get lunch
- 01:30 p.m. – We will take a riding tour of Atlanta for photos at: CNN, Morehouse College, and do some shopping.
- 4:00 p.m. We will return to our hotel to record our day in our journals, and chill out in the pool
- 7:00 p.m. We will share an evening dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Day 3, Thursday, July 18, 2024 (Tuskegee)
6:30 a.m. - We will rise and get ready to move out to Tuskegee University.
- 09:30 a.m. -We will tour “The Oaks” – The home of Booker T. Washington, as well as the gravesite of Mr. Washington.
- 11:00 a.m. -Tuskegee Airmen
- Airbase tour. During World War II these Negro pilots helped America win the war.
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01:30 p.m. Legacy Museum tour at Tuskegee featuring exhibits about Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cells were taken without her permission but still live today to help scientists understand and cure diseases. We will also see exhibits to expand our knowledge about the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on Black men and its results.
- 03:30 p.m. – We will visit the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. This is the church where Martin Luther King pastored, led the first bus boycott, and began the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
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5:00 p.m. We will check in at our hotel in Montgomery.
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7:00 p.m. – We will get supper at a local restaurant
- Day 4, Friday, July 19, 2024 (Montgomery)
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7:00 a.m. – We will rise, get some breakfast and prepare for our day’s adventure White Water Rafting.
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10:00 a.m. – Montgomery White Water Rafting, 1100 Maxwell Blvd. We will sign up for our boat safety class, and then gear up with our guide for our rafting tour. It is a safe adventure in which we learn about canoeing and the white water sport.
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01:00 p.m. – We leave out for our return to Monroe, through Selma, Alabama the site of the great march led by Martin Luther King across the Edmund Pettis Bridge. That day is recorded as “Bloody Sunday” in African-American History.
- 08:30 p.m. – We arrive at the Marbles Recreation Center to end our trip.