The Southern Pilgrimage is a joint program of The Equity Center at the University of Virginia and Monticello’s Getting Word African American Oral History Project. A renewal of the annual Charlottesville Civil Rights Tour hosted by The Memory Project at UVA, the Southern Pilgrimage is a week-long, immersive learning experience that guides participants through the Deep South. The trip will depart from Charlottesville on June 9, 2025, and return on June 15, 2025.
Our aim in this week-long pilgrimage is to grapple with a version of a question first put forth by the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project. What story does the commemorative landscape of the South tell?
Over the course of seven days, this cohort will undertake a broad survey of the South’s historic landscape, exploring sites of history from the colonial era through the Civil Rights Movement across Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
Applications are due by 11:59 pm on January 10
