Metro Detroit Students Invited to Apply to Take Part in Freedom Tour
The trip, sponsored by the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, will take high-schoolers on a journey to see the history of civil rights in the United States.
This summer a group of Michigan students will be learning an important part of United States history at close range as they explore the sites and stories of the 1961 Freedom Rides and other seminal events in this country’s civil rights movement. Thirty Detroit area high school students will participate in leadership development during an historic, two-week group bus tour covering many of the same sites where the original Freedom Riders worked for justice over five decades ago. Freedom Tour 2013 will visit a number of cities in the South, including Atlanta, GA., Montgomery and Selma in AL. and Meridian, MS. The Michigan Coalition for Human Rights is sponsoring and organizing the trip. The group has hosted students on similar educational …
