Visiting MLK Sites: A Historical Family Road Trip

Best way to start your day. A little history lesson for you on this special day.🇺🇸🌎✌️ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day may not mean much to you - let’s fix that. Your kids can’t learn it from you if you don’t learn it yourself first… “Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
Dr. King’s Christmas sermon, Atlanta, Georgia, 1967. Let’s do some history travel… homeschool travel… learning travel… intentional travel. 🔹The house where Dr. King lived the first 12 years of his life in the MLK National Historic Park in Atlanta 🔹Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where he was assistant pastor under his father from 1960-1968 🔹Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery where the Montgomery Bus Boycott was headquartered and where Dr. King pastored from 1954-1960 🔹The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama which was the end of the Selma to Montgomery March led by MLK in 1965 🔹The Lorraine Motel in Memphis where Dr. King was assassinate in 1968 which is now the amazing National Civil Rights Museum - must see for Black history 🔹The grave where he is buried next to his wife Coretta in Atlanta 🔹MLK Memorial in Washington DC where he stands near some of our greatest US presidents and just minutes away from the Lincoln memorial where he gave his famous ”I Have a Dream” speech. I hope this inspires you to make your family road trip destinations meaningful. ❤️Don’t just read history - visit the places. It’s my favorite way to learn! Side note: We just watched Selma as a family. It is a bit violent (as fitting for the Civil Rights movement), but it’s such a fabulous historical portrayal of Martin Luther King. Go teach your kids something. World-changers are worth knowing.❤️ 👉I’d love to give you travel tips to these sites! DM me and we’ll chat!👋👋 . . . . . #martinlutherkingquotes #martinlutherkingjrday #civilrightsmuseum #historicsite #fieldtrips #historicalbuilding #fieldtripday #historygram @martinlutherkingjrnps @ncrmuseum @visitmontgomery