LOUISVILLE, Ky. 鈥 The University of Louisville鈥檚 campuses aren鈥檛 the only places to learn from its professors. Its College of Arts and Sciences is offering two public summer field trips related to civil rights and to William Shakespeare.
鈥斺淎&S Faculty Field Trip: Civil Rights Tour of Louisville鈥 will be a June 19 bus tour of local sites significant to the 20th century movement. Cate Fosl, director of UofL鈥檚 Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, will lead the 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. tour occurring on the Juneteenth commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Fosl, an associate professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies, also is author of 鈥淪ubversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South鈥 and co-author of 鈥淔reedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky.鈥
Tour participants will start at Freedom Park at Cardinal Boulevard between Second and Third streets on UofL鈥檚 Belknap Campus. Bus stops will range from the Braden home and Muhammad Ali鈥檚 boyhood home to the Western Branch Library and churches. The group will get off the bus in Chickasaw Park for a 1960s-style picnic dinner.