Texas A&M University-Commerce counseling professor Dr. LaVelle Hendricks and undergraduate student Noah Molina discuss the most recent Civil Rights Tour organized by Hendricks. The trip is the latest in a multi-year series of instructional excursions during which students have toured historic sites in Alabama and Mississippi relevant to the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
One aspect of the trips that differs from a typical historic tour is that students hear presentations from "foot soldiers" - activists and others who lived and worked during the events memorialized today,
Recently, tours have also traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to learn about the Greenwood Massacre and related events.