Civil Rights Sites Andrew Schoolnik Has Visited.

Schoolnik Visiting Important Civil Rights Sites:  The Value of Being There

Reading about places where significant civil rights events have taken place is different than actually being in those places.  Schoolnik visiting the places on this page supports this notion.  There is something unique about being able to walk on sidewalks that our nation’s forefathers and foremothers have walked.  There is something awesome about breathing in the air in small towns, big cities, and hard-to-find country boroughs where the collective conscience of America at one time could be found.  Because of the significant events that took place at these locations, these are places that changed the nation, and the world, forever.

Schoolnik Visiting Places that Shaped America’s Past and Present

These are pictures Andrew Schoolnik took during visits to each of these important sites.  They tell the story of America just as much as Fanueil Hall and Mount Rushmore.  Each of these places are, appropriately, are open to the public.  They are available for visiting.  These sites tell the story of both America’s past and its present.  The events that took place at these locations changed the path that of our nation.  As a result of the important events that took place at these locations, these are places that everyone American should visit.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is where Bloody Sunday took place and where the Voting Rights March of 1963 began.  While the march began at the Edmund Pettis Bridge, it concluded at the Alabama State Capitol.  Another of these locations is the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, where the horrifying Tuskegee Syphilis Study took place.  And, of course, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began with Rosa Parks.

Take a tour of these photographs and envision yourself there.

Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, Alabama