Community Travel

To help students connect what they are learning in the classroom, the Human Rights and Modern-Day Slavery community has taken many experiential trips in order to engage with the people and topics that they are stuyding. These experiences add context, as well as opportunities for students to experience the themes in the classroom first-hand and connect and engage with scholars and leaders in the field.

Past Community Trips

Richmond, Virginia
Students will spend a Saturday walking the Richmond Slave Trail with Dr. Melissa Ooten, a historian who studies civil rights and social movements in the American South. The students will walk the slave trail and end the tour at Lumpkin's Jail and the burial group site downtown, as well as have lunch at a local restaurant together as community.

Montgomery, AL
Students will travel to Montgomery, AL. Among other events, students will visit the Legacy Museum and Memorial, the Rosa Parks Museum, King Memorial Baptist Church.

Washington, D.C.
Students will travel to Washington for a day–trip to meet with officials at the Department of State and the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, as well as meet with a non-govermental organization (NGO) in Washington.

Los Angeles, California
The community will travel to Los Angeles to meet with leaders at the Coalitiion to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) to learn about their work, offer perspective to the current situation within the United States and globally, to help better inform the students' research. In addition, students will visit LAPD offices to learn about the community work and outreach provided by their special taskforce.