IU South Bend Freedom Summer Class

Indiana University South Bend College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Every two to four years, IU South Bend faculty lead students on a deeply immersive and powerful experience to understand the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S. South. In this intensively personal and academic experience, Freedom Summer students embark on a 14-day journey traveling to historic sites in the Civil Rights Movement and hearing from its participants, experiencing this history first-hand. Gifts to this fund provide general support for this life-changing program.

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IU South Bend Freedom Summer Class

Indiana University South Bend College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Every two to four years, IU South Bend faculty lead students on a deeply immersive and powerful experience to understand the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S. South. In this intensively personal and academic experience, Freedom Summer students embark on a 14-day journey traveling to historic sites in the Civil Rights Movement and hearing from its participants, experiencing this history first-hand. Gifts to this fund provide general support for this life-changing program.

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Artwork display of Civil Rights moments.

The Freedom Summer Class is a 3-credit study tour of the Civil Rights Movement in the South taught through IU South Bend. Freedom Summer goes to such places as the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia; across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; through the Mississippi Delta with a stop in Indianola; and many others. At each stop, students can visualize history unfolding in the places where it happened, touring museums and historic sites and meeting people whose actions in the movement serve as important lessons for today’s civil rights struggles.

Students march in the footsteps of activists, dialogue with Civil Rights leaders, and visit museums, monuments, and churches. They are immersed in the current and past culture of social change. While connecting with past organizers and historic sites, students are inspired to engage in community action.

Thank you for helping tomorrow's leaders learn and grow through this invaluable experience!

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Please note, the name and purpose of the fund displayed on this page constitute the authorized description of the fund by the Indiana University Foundation, Inc. Your gift supports the fund as described herein.