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Over a 2-week period, traveling from city to city and state to state on a bus, we will traverse the Deep South on a journey to examine issues of social stratification in the contemporary American South. The specific focus will be on race and class inequalities and the way they are manifest in this historically important part of the US.

We visit such well known places as Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery as well as lesser known places such as Philadelphia and Money, Mississippi. Each site is carefully selected for its importance in the history of civil rights. However, we will not limit our inquiry on the history, rather we will constantly be asking “what has happened since the historic events took place on this site?” <Read More>