Miles total: 3250 miles
We met with activist/writer/filmmaker Connie Curry this morning. Connie was an adult advisor to SNCC (the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee) from its inception, and she worked with the organization in the early 1960s throughout the South. She is working on her 5th book related to the Civil Rights movement, and her activism continues today with work on prison reform. Students watched her film, The Intolerable Burden which chronicles school desegregation in the Mississippi Delta, two weeks earlier before we entered the Delta. Then we headed over to the MLK National Historic Site, which includes a museum, MLK's birth home, and his tomb. We dropped by Atlanta University Center to see the campuses of Morehouse and Spelman on the way out of town.
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