A&S Faculty Field Trip:
Civil Rights Tour of Louisville 

Celebrate Juneteenth with a Civil Rights Tour of Louisville where you will learn how the 20th-century civil rights movement changed and continues to change lives in the Louisville area. Led by Dr. Cate Fosl, Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research.

Tour starts at Freedom Park on UofL's Belknap Campus. Stops include Old Central High School,  Zion Baptist Church, Chickasaw Park, home of Carl and Anne Braden, boyhood home of Muhammad Ali, Western Branch Library, and Quinn Chapel.

$20 bus tour includes a 1960's picnic box dinner. Limited number of reduced price tickets available for those who are unable to pay full price. Contact us at asadvance@louisville.edu for more information. 

Catherine Fosl, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, is founding Director of the Anne Braden Institute. Dr. Fosl is the author of Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Palgrave Macmillen, 2002), as well as the books Freedom on the Border:  An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (co-authored with Tracy E. K’Meyer, University Press of Kentucky, 2009) and Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1989). Subversive Southerner won the 2003 Oral History Association Book Award and was named an Outstanding Book in 2003 by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights.