International Civil Rights Center and Museum bus trip
You can purchase a ticket for this tour when you register for Annual Conference or if you are already registered click on the Modify Registration link in your confirmation email and add the tour. Tickets are limited and may not be available to purchase onsite in Greensboro.
Animating the iconic F.W. Woolworth’s landmark, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum opened in 2010 as a comprehensive museum of the Civil Rights Movement and an innovative educational organization devoted to understanding and advancing civil and human rights in this country and the world. It commemorates the Feb. 1, 1960, sit-ins at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro by four Black college students from North Carolina A&T State University — David Richmond, Frank McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil. Their non-violent direct action, in conjunction with their colleagues at Bennett College, ignited the Sit-In Movement that renewed the Civil Rights Movement as a whole, challenging the Americans to make good on promises of personal equality and civic inclusion enunciated in the Constitution. The ICRCM commemorates the brave and visionary advocacy of full citizenship and social justice.
The guided tour showcases numerous films, enactments, interactive displays, live narration, and civil rights artifacts that include the original lunch counter where the sit-in occurred.
Tickets are $30 per adult, which includes museum admission and the bus ride.
Wednesday, July 2
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The bus leaves the convention center promptly at 1:45 and returns by 4:30.
This trip is open to anyone.
Thursday, July 3
8:30 am – 11:30 am
The bus leaves the convention center promptly at 8:45 am and returns by 11:30.
This trip is for non-delegates only since business will be in session at this time.
For more information about the museum go to: www.sitinmovement.org