Arrivals in Richmond/Coach Transfer to Farmville, VA/Orientation & Introduction

Arrive To: Richmond International Airport for coach Transfer to Farmville, VA

Afternoon: Check in at the Hamden Inn Farmville followed by registration with the Group Leader. Prior to dinner, preview the program with the group leader and get to know your fellow participants at the Program Orientation.

Dinner: Dinner at the hotel

Evening: Presentation: "The Journey to Equal Education". A brief overview of education in America highlighting Reconstruction and Education in the first half of the 20th century. Afterwards, particpants will have the opportunity to share their own experiences and knowledge

Lodging: Hampton Inn and Suites in Farmville

Meals Included: Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Presentation: "Robert Russa Moton: Student, Educator, and Visionary". Explore Moton's career as an unyielding advocate for Equal Education. Then, discuss the life of civil rights hero, Barbara Johns. Examine her role in the fight for equal educaiton in Prince Edward Country and beyond.

Lunch: Lunch at a local restaurant

Afternoon: Fieldtrip to the Robert Russa Moton Museum. Then, examine the Supreme Court's role in the struggle for integration.

Dinner: Dinner at the hotel

Evening: Evening performance

Lodging: Hampton Inn and Suites in Farmville

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Morning: Enjoy a hands-on activity -"Setting up the Free Schools" . Then trace the establishment of the Prince Edward County Free Schools.

Lunch: At a local restaurant

Afternoon: Fieldtrip to the First Baptist Church, Courthouse, Farmville Herald, site of Farmville Highschool, and P.E. County High. Then return to the hotel for a presentation "Beyond Griffin v. School Board of P.E. County".

Dinner: Dinner at the hotel

Evening: Watch a video presentation" Memories of Moton High".

Lodging: Hampton Inn and Suites in Farmville

Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Field trip to Richmond History Center. With museum staff, trace the lives and efforts to gain equality of African Americans in the former Confederate capital. Investigate work, leisure, education, and legal initiatives from the Civil War through the election of L. Douglas Wilder, the first African American governor in any state.

Lunch: Lunch at the Museum

Afternoon: Depart the museum and take a Field Trip to explore significant sites on the Road to Equality. including: the Maggie Walker House, Lumpkins Jail, Jackson Ward, the Black History Museum, and Capital Square. Then head towards Washington DC.

Dinner: Check in at the Radisson Hotel National Airport follwed by dinner.

Evening: Evening presentation about the NAACP

Lodging: Radisson Hotel Reagan National Airport

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Mary McLeod Bethune House/MLK Memorial/Coach Tour of African American Sites in Washington

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Watch a DVD about African American educator and leader of women, Mary McLeod Bethune. Afterwards, visit the Mary McLeod Bethune House, located near Logan Circle in Washington.

Lunch: Lunch at a local restaurant

Afternoon: Visit the new Martin Luther King Memorial, located just off the National Mall, near the Tidal Basin and Jefferson Memorial. Afterwards, take a coach tour of African American sites in Washington, to include Georgetown, the Mount Zion United Methodist Church, and the locations of homes of Alfred Pope, Emma Brown, John Fleet, and Duke Ellington.

Dinner: Dinner at the hotel

Evening: Presentation about NABSE, the National Alliance of Black School Educators

Lodging: Radisson Hotel Reagan National Airport

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Fieldtrip to Howard University. Hear a presentation about Howard and the history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Afterwards, drive through the neighborhood of LeDroit Park, home to leading African American families in the 1890s and early 20th century. Afterwards, enjoy a free Afternoon and evening. Participants may be dropped at the new African American Civil War Museum…or at another museum or the hotel.

Lunch: Lunch on your own

Afternoon: Free Afternoon to explore all the DC has to offer. Ask your group leader for suggestions!

Dinner: Dinner on you own

Lodging: Radisson Hotel Reagan National Airport

Meals Included: Breakfast

Metropolitan A.M.E Church/ Fredrick Douglass House/Charles Drew Presentation

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Depart at 8:15 to the 9:00 AM Sunday Worship Service at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, founded in 1838 and a church where Frederick Douglass preached. After the service, join members for coffee in Douglass Hall.

Lunch: Lunch at America Restaurant in Washington Union Station

Afternoon: See a short film and visit the Frederick Douglass House, located on a hill in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington.

Dinner: Dinner at the hotel

Evening: Educator and former city council representative Charlene Drew Jarvis will speak about her father, blood plasma and transfusion pioneer, Charles Drew.

Lodging: Radisson Hotel Reagan National Airport

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Depart From: Check out and Program Departures

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Presentation this morning about historian, author, and journalist Carter Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History [ASALH] and was the primary force behind the creation of Black History Month.

Meals Included: Breakfast