The Rosa Parks Museum’s annual educational summer day camp, Architects of Change, is open to all River Region middle students who will be entering grades 6-8 during the 2024-2025 school year. The mission of the camp is to share the techniques of non-violent conflict resolution used by Mrs. Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement. Our goal is to connect past struggles in the quest for equal rights to social justice struggles that continue today.
About the camp…
- Workshops on conflict resolution and building the Beloved Community.
- Training helps campers to handle conflict effectively and peacefully; embrace forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance and respond to conflict with reconciliation instead of lashing out or holding grudges.
- Connecting past Civil Rights events to modern social justice issues through visits to civil rights sites
- Culminating art project
Field trips…
- Rosa Parks Museum and Children’s Wing
- Walking tour of downtown Montgomery’s civil rights historic sites
- Tour of the Equal Justice Initiative’s new Freedom Sculpture Garden
- Tuskegee University (including the exteriors of The Oaks, home of Booker T. Washington, and the George Washington Carver Museum - both of which are currently closed for remodeling)
- Tuskegee Airmen Museum at Moten Field
- Selma Voting Rights Museum, Historic Brown's Chapel, and march across Edmund Pettus Bridge
- Lowndes and Montgomery Interpretive Centers
Fees and other important info…
- Located at the Rosa Parks Museum (ÁùºÏ±¦µä Montgomery)
- June 3-7, 2024, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily
- $100 per student (discounted rates for additional children within the same family)
- There are a limited number of scholarships available. (Please contact McKenzie or Donna for application, which is due no later than April 30th.)
- Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided daily
- Non-refundable $20 deposit due with application no later than Friday, May 3rd, 2024
- Balance due Friday, May 21st, 2024
- Parents will receive camp itinerary no later than May 29th.
If you have questions or need more information, please contact:
McKenzie Walker, mwalker166145@troy.edu (334.241.9541)
Donna Beisel, dbeisel@troy.edu (334.832.7295)