Retracing the Route of Freedom: Notre Dame group rides a bus to civil rights landmarks across the South | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Retracing the Route of Freedom: Notre Dame group rides a bus to civil rights landmarks across the South Retracing the Route of Freedom: Notre Dame group rides a bus to civil rights landmarks across the South Published: May 04, 2020 Author: Brendan O'Shaughnessy Mural near the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis TN. The wall is a re-interpretation of a 1960's photo of striking Memphis sanitation workers.( Goose pimples broke out on a student’s skin in the pitch-black cellar of a Tennessee stop on the Underground Railroad. A visceral sadness seeped into a faculty member in the Memphis hotel room where Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony. The physical presence of the souls of black leaders overwhelmed the group’s bus driver in a Selma church. These are sacred places, where people commune with those who paid the price for freedom. One thing that has become clear during the time of corona is the difference between virtual learning from books and screens versus the raw, bone-deep feelings of knowledge that can only come through first-hand experience. Thirty-one Notre Dame students and 13 faculty, staff and leadership fellows plunged into the latter on a bus journey of the history of the civil rights movement across the southern U.S. just before the pandemic shut off campus life and travel in mid-March. To read the story, click here. Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn