Rhode Island students trek south on annual Civil Rights trip

ATLANTA, GA (WLNE) — Some Rhode Island students are down south today for the Gordon School’s annual Civil Rights trip.

Eighth graders with the school have made it to Atlanta for the first leg of their capstone for their Civil Rights movement studies.

Among the stops for the students on their four-day long trip, the Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached, a tour of Selma, Alabama with Joanne Bland, who participated in the 1965 voting rights march in the town and a visit to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

After they return Thursday, the students will work with local agencies for a four-week service-learning project.