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Coastal Journey

Picture of Civil Right mural from Carolina Friends School's Civil Rights Bus Tour

Charleston + Savannah

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Spring 2025

This experience is open to individuals within and beyond the CFS community, including educators in schools and colleges as well as Friends meeting members and other curious adults.

Explore important aspects of American, Southern, and Black history spanning 300+ years--from enduring Gullah Geechee traditions to the 2015 white supremacist violence at Mother Emmanuel--in two beautiful and complex coastal cities. 

On our comfortable bus, enjoy relevant music, see documentaries and film clips, and learn from our experienced historian tour leaders.

Be educated. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be empowered.

Educators, learn more about professional growth programs for you through the Institute for Teaching and Learning.

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Until we reckon with history, we’re not going to be free. I think there’s something better waiting for us that we can’t get to until we talk honestly about our past. 

Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery; Author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption