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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students have the opportunity to spend their winter or spring break on a Civil Rights Pilgrimage to the South, visiting sites of historic importance to the U.S. civil rights movement.

The 2010 trips are planned for January 8-18 and March 26-April 4.

The trips will include stops at the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta; the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama; the Civil Rights Memorial and the Rosa Parks Museum and Library in Montgomery, Alabama; the National Voting Rights Museum and other sites in Selma, Alabama; New Orleans, Louisiana; Central High School and William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas; and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

The trip also will include a stop in New Orleans, with a visit to the famous Preservation Hall, home of New Orleans jazz. While in Selma, students can participate in a service learning project to record an oral history of the Voting Rights March on Montgomery.

Students may also chose to register for Women’s Studies 222 or to participate in a faculty/student research project coordinated by student planners, Ann Watson, Sarah Tweedale, Sarah Gonzalez, and Tony Och.

The $350 trip fee includes transportation, lodging and museum admissions. A $75 deposit is required at registration, which will continue until all 50 slots are filled. Students may register on a first come, first-served basis by completing the Sign Up Form and paying the registration fee to the Student Senate office, Room 132, Davies Center, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

The Civil Rights Pilgrimage is sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire Student Senate, the Dean of Students Office and the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.

Got questions? Contact Jodi Thesing-Ritter, associate dean of students, at 715-836-2325 or thesinjm@uwec.edu.