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Memphis & Little Rock

Posted on June 30, 2023

– Sela Sokol Despite the early morning that we started our day off on, the heat of Memphis was unbearable. Thankfully, our first stop was Sun Studios, which was indoors. We traveled back through time and learned the history of the studio and the music surrounding it. I’ve always had a love for music, so Continue Reading »

Montgomery & Memphis

Posted on June 29, 2023

– Joshua Horwich This morning, we woke up and immediately started our day with the Equal Justice Initiative’s memorial and museum. The memorial made me think about just how many lynchings occurred in our country. In US history class, we skim over the lynchings, only talking about emancipation and Dr. King at length. However, seeing Continue Reading »

Day 4 – Memphis and Little Rock

Posted on July 1, 2022

by Kaia Laden   Today was a very exciting and interesting day for me. We started off the morning with an early breakfast. After a short bus ride we arrived at the Lorraine Motel. This is where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered on April 4, 1968. Josh and Billy talked to us about Continue Reading »

Day 3 – Montgomery and Memphis

Posted on June 30, 2022

by Anna Baker-Butler   This morning we watched a video preparing us for the EJI museum and learned about the slave trade. We went to the lynching memorial where counties that had lynching victims were listed along with the victims’ names. This was a very powerful memorial to me for a number of reasons. I Continue Reading »

Day 5 – Memphis and Little Rock

Posted on July 2, 2021

By Matan Berg Our trip’s first Thursday began in downtown Memphis, after a stay in the Hilton Inn (which was far and away our best hotel yet!). We got a riveting tour of the legendary Sun Studio, the birthplace of Rock and Roll. Our tour guide, Zack, showed us the incredible history firsthand, in the Continue Reading »

Day 4 – Montgomery and Memphis

Posted on July 1, 2021

By Amira Faden After a brief breakfast at the hotel, we started our day at the Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Museum in Montgomery. This museum explores the continuation of slavery through mass incarceration, and is located in a building that was previously a slave holding pen. Towards the beginning of the museum, we had the Continue Reading »

Day 5 – Memphis and Little Rock

Posted on July 5, 2019

By Stephanie Glaser Happy 243rd birthday America! We started off the day by traveling to a very patriotic man’s mansion- Mr. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. When we rolled into Graceland, we saw some amazing sights. The first thing I noticed Elvis’s many planes he owned, that even had his brand on Continue Reading »

Day Five – Memphis and Little Rock

Posted on June 29, 2018

by Isabela Weiss: We began today in Graceland (Elvis’s mansion) which was more extravagant than any home you have seen. The rooms were lined in chandeliers and other embroideries, including a living room designed to look like a jungle. Next, we traveled to Beale Street for lunch where myself and a few others went to Continue Reading »