{"id":372,"date":"2009-08-04T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T19:25:13","slug":"experiencing-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2009\/08\/04\/experiencing-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact Professor Robert Bickel<br \/>Professor of Law<br \/>727-562-7854<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"320\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"9\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#81a581\" bordercolor=\"1\">\n<td width=\"402\" height=\"307\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" bordercolor=\"1\">\n<h5>Slideshow Images:<br \/>         Traveling more than 2,000 miles, students visited museums, institutes, universities, and historical locations, and met with numerous Civil Rights Movement veterans.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fstetsonlaw%2Fsets%2F72157621847075393%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fstetsonlaw%2Fsets%2F72157621847075393%2F&amp;set_id=72157621847075393&amp;jump_to=\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fstetsonlaw%2Fsets%2F72157621847075393%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fstetsonlaw%2Fsets%2F72157621847075393%2F&amp;set_id=72157621847075393&amp;jump_to=\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/object><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span>Each year, Stetson Law Professor Robert Bickel teaches an elective course on the subject of Constitutional Law and the Civil Rights Movement  \u2013 emphasizing the role of law in the modern history of the struggle for racial equality.<span> \u00a0<\/span>Students study and discuss the case law, social discourse and politics which defined the period from the Reconstruction era through the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.<span> \u00a0<\/span>Following this classroom experience, during the summer academic intersession, Professor Bickel and Professor Raymond Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, conduct a \u00a010-day advanced travel course which offers students the opportunity to personally connect with the people and places that defined the campaign for civil rights from 1955-1965. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span\/><span>The advanced experiential travel course focuses on learning through \u00a0visiting museums, institutes, centers, universities and historic places identified with civil rights law and the Civil Rights Movement.<span> \u00a0<\/span>Learning environments include symposia, interviews and small group conversations with actual veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, including many of the 1961 Freedom Riders, civil rights activists and lawyers, and other notable participants in civil rights movement law and history. For the fourth year, from July 23 \u2013Aug. 1, a group of 34 students from \u00a0Stetson University \u00a0College of Law, Stetson University&#8217;s DeLand campus, and graduate students from the University of South Florida traveled more than 2,000 miles over \u00a010 days, visiting the <a title=\"Visit the Albany Civil Rights Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.albanycivilrightsinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albany Civil Rights Museum<\/a>, the <a title=\"Visit the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thekingcenter.org\/DrMLKingJr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta<\/a>, the <a title=\"Visit the Nashville Public Library Civil Rights Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.library.nashville.org\/civilrights\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Public Library Civil Rights Collection<\/a>, the <a title=\"Visit the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bcri.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Civil Rights Institute<\/a>, the <a title=\"Visit the Southern Poverty Law Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>, the <a title=\"Visit the Rosa Parks Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/montgomery.troy.edu\/rosaparks\/museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosa Parks Museum<\/a> and the <a title=\"Visit the National Voting Rights Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nvrm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Voting Rights Museum<\/a>, as well as <a title=\"Visit Tennessee State University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee State University<\/a>, <a title=\"Visit Fisk University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fisk.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fisk University<\/a> and <a title=\"Learn more about Vanderbilt University&#x92;s John Seigenthaler Center\" href=\"http:\/\/johnseigenthaler.com\/pages\/2\/page2.html?refresh=1112205880859\" target=\"_blank\">Vanderbilt University&#8217;s John Seigenthaler Center<\/a>. \u00a0The trip was \u00a0accompanied by Rip Patton, a veteran of the original Nashville sit-ins, and the 1961 Freedom Rides, during which he and other riders endured imprisonment in Mississippi&#8217;s Parchman Penitentiary for their effort to enter a &#8220;white only&#8221; bus station waiting room under the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in <em>Boynton v. Virginia<\/em>.<span> \u00a0<\/span>Their very presence was deemed a breach of peace and Mississippi courts ignored the <em>Boynton <\/em>decision. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to the museums, institutes and universities mentioned, students also visited the sites of some of the most famous events in the civil rights struggle which are identified with these cities, including the Greyhound and Trailways bus stations where freedom riders were attacked by white mobs in Anniston, Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala.; the churches that were at the center of Movement activity (including the churches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, as well as the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham which was the target of the Klan bombing that killed four children only 18 days after the March on Washington in 1963); and the scenes of some of the most important protests for civil rights and the violence of white southern resistance (including Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, and the scene of the attack of voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in March of 1965), and the courtroom and chambers of Judge Frank Johnson Jr. who heard much of the testimony in Movement cases and wrote the brilliant defense of the First Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment in <em><a title=\"Read Williams v. Wallace.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stetson.edu\/WorkArea\/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&amp;ItemID=6816\" target=\"_blank\">Williams v. Wallace<\/a><\/em>  \u2013 the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march case.<span> \u00a0Throughout these visits, students have the opportunity to meet with, and hear the personal stories of more than 25 Movement veterans whose personal leadership and courage defined the cases and direct action that led ultimately to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This rare opportunity to meet people, now ranging in age from 60 to 95, who could share personal accounts of the law and history the students had studied, contributed to both the students&#8217; understanding of legal history and their resolve to sustain and advance civil liberties and civil rights  \u2013 as the law&#8217;s highest calling. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1938, John Dewey wrote that <\/span><span>&#8220;the institutions and customs that exist in the present and that give rise to present social ills and dislocations did not arise overnight. They have a long history behind them&#8230;.The way out of scholastic systems that made the past an end in itself is to make acquaintance with the past a means of understanding the present.&#8221; This aspect of professional and personal growth and understanding is at the heart of the travel experience. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span\/><span>A 50-minute documentary film on the travel course is available for educational showings at bar association meetings, schools, churches or meetings of community service organizations. Contact Professor Robert Bickel at 727-562-7854 \u00a0or the Office of Communications at 727-562-7381 \u00a0for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span\/>To read more news about this year&#8217;s travel course, visit the <span><a title=\"Read coverage about this symposium in the Anniston Star. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.annistonstar.com\/pages\/full_story\/push?article-Family+shares+memories+of+Willie+Brewster%20&amp;id=3033031-Family+shares+memories+of+Willie+Brewster&amp;instance=1st_right\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Anniston Star<\/em><\/a> \u00a0and read comments by the paper&#8217;s editor, <a title=\"Read an article by Bob Davis on Learning from the Pain of the Past.\" href=\"http:\/\/annistonstar.com\/bookmark\/3075244\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Davis<\/a>.<\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stetson law students in an advanced travel course met with numerous Civil Rights Movement veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-1","tag-civil-rights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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