BLACK HISTORY & CIVIL RIGHTS TOURS
Preserving Truth • Honoring Legacy • Empowering the Future
The AADM Black History & Civil Rights Tours are a transformative, immersive learning experience designed to bring history to life while empowering participants to understand their rights and advocate for justice. Participants get to experience history by walking the landscapes, engaging with the stories, and meeting the communities that keep Black history and heritage alive.
PROTECT black history
Across the country, lawmakers are attempting to ban Black history, silence conversations about systemic racism, eliminate DEI programs, and even criminalize educators, activists, and community groups for telling the truth. These ongoing attacks threaten to erase the stories, achievements, and struggles that shape our collective past, and our future.
To preserve and protect this knowledge, the AADM launched the Black History & Civil Rights Tours a transformative, immersive learning experience designed to keep our stories and black history alive.
These tours are more than educational, they are an act of preservation, empowerment, and cultural resistance. By walking the paths of our ancestors and community leaders, participants strengthen their understanding of justice, identity, and the ongoing fight for freedom.
TRAVEL AND TRUTH
Black History & Heritage Educational Tour
This journey invites participants to:
Learn the history through travel, on-the-ground, and storytelling.
Explore the legacy, culture, and resilience of Black communities across generations.
Understand how laws, movements, and resistance shaped local and national civil rights history.
Experience heritage through food, art, music, and entrepreneurship, connecting historical roots to modern Black innovation.
Gain tools to challenge misinformation and preserve truth, even as institutions attempt to rewrite or restrict it.
AADM’s first Black History & Civil Rights Tour will take place February 21–22, blending a powerful tribute to Ahmaud “Maud” Arbery with an immersive cultural journey to Sapelo Island, Georgia.
RSVP below to secure your spot and join this transformative experience.
TOUR RSVP
Spaces are limited, and awards are granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so don’t wait! Scholarships are available.
Black History Map of Athens
This map shows sites created by and/or relevant to Black residents of Athens, Georgia after the announcement of emancipation in Athens on May 4, 1865.
Click on a bookmark to zoom to a location and click on a point to open a popup.
This map was created by the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and the Community Mapping Lab.