Well Hello from Memphis! We made it everyone! After 37 hours straight including two nights on the bus together we arrived in Memphis just in time for our reservation for lunch at Trolley Stop Market
We filled our hours with lots of games, visiting, sleeping reading. There were lots of conversation and laughter along the way.
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Catch Phrase |
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Joe does some light reading! |
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Heads Up! |
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Cards! |
After lunch we headed over to the National Civil Rights Museum. We prepared for the our time at the Museum by watching the movie ' A Time to Kill' . It was a movie set in the south, depicting life and circumstances of life as a Black citizen in the 60's. We also watched the documentary 'The Witness'. Reverend Samuel Kyles describes the events leading up to the assassination of MLK. He was one of the privileged ones to be with Martin Luther King Jr. in the last hour of his life. He was on the balcony with MLK. He talked about how you can kill the dreamer but you cannot kill the dream!
The tour turned out to be more than a history lesson for our group. It moved many in many different ways.
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Our group in front of the Freedom Wall |
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The students take advantage of the many interactive displays in the museum. |
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Manny watches a short video... with an eerie onlooker. |
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Our students sat at the counter where several young black students sat at a white only lunch counter years ago in protest. |
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The museum site has preserved the Motel Lorraine as it existed at the time.
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Tomorrow we travel to New Orleans to experience more southern culture and flavour. We hope to spend the afternoon in the French Quarter. It has been cool and rainy thus far so we are hoping as we travel 6 hours further south the weather will turn a bit warmer!