Freedom Bus Tour of Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

Join the Freedom Bus tour in celebration of the publication of Alabama's Civil Rights Trail: An lllustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom by Frye Gaillard, with a Foreword by Juan Williams, and published by The University of Alabama Press. Follow us to each stop on this historic journey. The tour kicks off at Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum & Library on February 7 beginning at 4:00 p.m. On February 8, at the Museum & Library, a half-day seminar from 9 a.m. to 12 noon will take place with Gaillard, local high school students, and actual civil rights foot soldiers. Following the seminar, the Freedom Bus tour heads to Selma, Alabama, with an event planned for 4:00 p.m. at the National Voting Rights Museum on February 9. Tuscaloosa is the next stop on the tour with a special program planned on February 10 at 4:00 p.m. in Stinson Auditorium on the campus of Stillman College. The final stop on the tour is Birmingham with an event planned on February 11 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute beginning at 5:30 p.rn. Each special program will feature Gaillard, foot soldiers from the Civil Rights Movement and special guests. No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. This first-ever, comprehensive book tells of Alabama's great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative paired with a guide to Alabama's preserved civil rights sites and monuments. Frye Gaillard is the author of Race, Rock and Religion: Profiles from a Southern Journalist, The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina, Becoming Truly Free: 300 Years of Black History in the Carolinas, and Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America. He is currently writer-in-residence at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. The special program events at each stop are free and open to the public. For more information or to reserve a spot on the Freedom Bus, contact The University of Alabama Press at (205) 348-9534. Copies Alabama's Civil Rights Trail will be available at each stop on the bus tour, online at www.uapress.ua.edu. or where all good books are sold.