BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences DESCRIPTION:In 2019, 2023 and again this past March, UMD Honors students jo ined Professor Santow for a civil rights spring break trip to Georgia and Alabama.  The students are all enrolled in a course that explores the bla ck Freedom Movement of the 1950s and 60s.  For each destination (Atlanta GA, Birmingham AL, Montgomery AL, Selma AL) they visited historic sites, m useums, parks, and monuments, and met veterans of civil rights campaigns o f the 1960s — often in their own homes.   History can feel abstract -- just a huge list of names, dates, and places. The trip allowed students to step outside the formal academic setting and gain an emotional understand ing of the movement and the obstacles it faced to enhance and inform their intellectual understanding. Meeting ‘foot soldiers’ of the Movement, for example, reveals the psychological and moral pain that so many young b lack people experienced in the 1950s and 1960s under the oppressive system of Jim Crow – and that people of all races endured in their non-violent efforts to change that system. It also shows them what courage looks like , and just how much our democratic way of life sometimes depends upon it.\ nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/nothing-can-be-changed-unti l-it-is-faced-a-umassd-civil-rights-trip-to-alabama.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In 2019\, 2023 and again this p ast March\, UMD Honors students joined Professor Santow for a civil rights spring break trip to Georgia and Alabama.  The students are all enrolled in a course that explores the black Freedom Movement of the 1950s and 60s .  For each destination (Atlanta GA\, Birmingham AL\, Montgomery AL\, Sel ma AL) they visited historic sites\, museums\, parks\, and monuments\, and met veterans of civil rights campaigns of the 1960s — often in their ow n homes.   History can feel abstract -- just a huge list of names\, dates \, and places. The trip allowed students to step outside the formal academ ic setting and gain an emotional understanding of the movement and the obs tacles it faced to enhance and inform their intellectual understanding. Me eting ‘foot soldiers’ of the Movement\, for example\, reveals the psyc hological and moral pain that so many young black people experienced in th e 1950s and 1960s under the oppressive system of Jim Crow – and that peo ple of all races endured in their non-violent efforts to change that syste m. It also shows them what courage looks like\, and just how much our demo cratic way of life sometimes depends upon it.

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/c ms/nothing-can-be-changed-until-it-is-faced-a-umassd-civil-rights-trip-to- alabama.php

DTSTAMP:20260410T163746 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T180000 LOCATION:MacLean Campus Center 007 (Blue & Gold Room) SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced:  A UMassD Civil Rights trip to Alabama UID:3f85d99301a7070b848ee8cf71a8fe63@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR