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Teen Civil Rights Trip 2024
Teen Civil Rights Trip 2024
Open to All Rising 9th–12th Graders
Depart Saturday night, November 23;
Return Tuesday night, November 26
All-inclusive trip includes:
- Flights to/from Atlanta
- Hotels
- Tour with Etgar 36
- Museum/memorial entrance fees
- Meals
- Tips
Teen Civil Rights Journey
The Civil Rights Journey is one in which your participants will become empowered and inspired to come back home and get involved by realizing they currently have power to make a difference. They will meet with Reverends who worked and strategized with Dr. King as well as people who participated in the march from Selma to Montgomery. These are primary sources. Each of our speakers ensures your participants understand that they can make a difference today. We will also discuss Jewish involvement in the Movement and how our Passover story correlates so strongly with the Civil Rights story.
By visiting the Equal Justice Initiative, we help your participants understand that Civil Rights is not an issue that only impacted a specific people in the 1950s & 60s but is an ongoing issue today and being fought for by a variety of groups that have not felt they had a voice in the world.
Trip Highlights will include:
- Church Services at Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia
- Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
- Equal Justice Initiative’s Memorial to Peace & Justice in Montgomery, Alabama
- Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
- Tour of Selma, Alabama & Walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
- Walking tour of Freedom Park & 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations before August 15 will receive a full refund. After August 15 we will make every effort to reimburse what we can with the understanding that individuals will be responsible for any non-refundable deposits already made.
Early Bird Registration Fee (register by June 14th): $895
After June 14 the price increases $100!
Additional $100 discount for DJ Torah Award recipients (with code entered on payment page)
Regular Registration Fee: $995/person
Special thanks to the Murray and Rose Gottlieb USY/Kadima Scholarship Fund, Rabbi Safra Fund for Programming and Service Leadership Training, and the Mary and Israel Shulman Student Community Service Endowment Fund for significantly subsidizing each student's registration fee by more than $600 for this experience.
Mon, October 14 2024
12 Tishrei 5785
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