Michigan Coalition for Human Rights sets 2022 Freedom Tour for June

The Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) has announced that applications are open for its 2022 Freedom Tour. The Freedom Tour will take Michigan high school students on a 12-day educational bus tour through the Deep South. The trip will expose students to the rich history of the U.S. civil rights movement, including landmarks, critical events, and discussions with civil rights activists.

MCHR’s 2022 Freedom Tour will be the seventh time that the group has sponsored a bus trip for state high school students to visit the historic sites of the movement, gain first-hand experience about
the long struggle for justice, and walk in the footsteps of the legendary civil rights activists who led the movement.

Scheduled for June 20-July 1, the itinerary for the 2022 Freedom Tour includes the following attractions:

  • Georgia – The King Center and historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
  • Alabama – Birmingham Civil Rights Center, Southern Poverty Law Center/Civil Rights Memorial Center and National Voting Rights Museum & Institute
  • Mississippi – Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Choctaw Reservation
  • Tennessee – National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
  • Kentucky – Berea College 

“We’re excited about this summer’s Freedom Tour and hoping that the largest group ever will be able to join us. As it has been with previous Freedom Tours, this excursion will provide an extraordinary, first-hand, educational opportunity for Michigan high school students to learn and experience the history of our country’s civil rights movement and how it continues to this day,” said Cary McGehee, long-time chair of MCHR and a founding partner of Pitt, McGehee, Palmer, Bonnani, & Rivers, a civil rights law firm in Royal Oak.

MCHR is currently accepting applications from Michigan high school students who wish to participate in the 2022 Freedom Tour. In addition, MCHR is also seeking corporate and individual donations to
help raise the $1500 per student cost for the tour.

To request an application and more information about the 2022 Freedom Tour, contact MCHR Executive Director Chantelle Yancy at MCHRFreedomTour@gmail.org and 313-579-9071. For additional information, go to mchr.org.

The Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, founded in 1980, promotes awareness of, commitment to, and advocacy for human rights and the environmental rights of planet Earth through education, community organization and action. MCHR opposes forces that suppress human dignity, freedom, and justice – locally and around the world. For additional information, visit mchr.org.