For the second year in a row, Hesston College is offering any interested participants the opportunity to learn the history and dynamics of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in a weeklong Civil Rights Seminar during the college’s spring break, March 4 to 13.

The seminar, led by Hesston College faculty member John Sharp as well as 1972 alumni Bruce and Joy Rogers (Goshen, Ind.) and former Hesston College faculty member Tony Brown, will engage with historical sites and activities in Alabama and Mississippi.

Participants will have the opportunity to walk from Brown Chapel across the Edmund Petus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, peaceful marchers were attacked. Most significant of all will be conversations with people on the ground – or “foot soldiers” as President Barack Obama called them – people deeply involved in the movement from Selma to Birmingham, Ala., to Merdian, Miss., whose stories are provocative and inspirational.

The seminar will include worshipping at the Sixteenth Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala., visiting the Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham), the Rosa Parks Library/Interpretive Center (Montgomery, Ala.) and the National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tenn.) where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered in 1968.

Along with students and faculty, the general public is invited to participate. The cost of the seminar is $450 plus meals, which includes transportation, lodging, and museum entrance fees. The deadline for registering is January 15.

Contact John Sharp for more information at 620-327-8248 or john.sharp@hesston.edu.