Community Travel

Black Literary Leadership will make two separate visits to two starkly different institutions of higher learning in the U.S. There are important, extended scenes in each novel that revolve around each protagonist and their respective reactions to and readings of—and literary representations of—two monuments to African American leaders (each the leading black leader of their day):

Montgomery & Tuskegee, Alabama
Fall Break

While in Alabama, the community will:

• Tuskegee University
  • Visit the famous Booker T. Washington monument on the campus he founded
  • Visit The Oaks, the home of Booker T. Washington
  • Meet with the University President, Dr. Lily McNair
  • Visit the George Washington Carver Museum
• Visit and tour the Rosa Parks Museum
• Visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
• Visit and meet with officials at the Equal Justice Initiative

Boston, Massachusetts
Weekend in October

While in Boston, the community will:

• Meet with Roberto Mighty, who produced and directed America’s first documentary, multimedia and online project about Martin Luther King, Jr and Coretta Scott King’s pivotal years in Boston in the early 1950’s.
• Meet Pastor Arthur Gerald of Twelfth Baptist Church
• Meet with Maryalice Perrin-Mohr, Archivist/Records Manager at the New England Conservatory of Music
• Visit the bust of Coretta Scott King at the New England Convservatory of Music
• Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Reading Room at Boston University
• Visit the Museum of African American History
• Visit The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists