DURHAM – ACC Network’s All-Access feature, hosted by Dalen Cuff, follows Duke’s Gracie Johnson, Louisville’s Sterling Warner-Savage and Virginia’s Carole Miller on their trip to Selma and Montgomery, Ala., over the summer for a transformational and educational experience on social justice.
The feature will air live on ACC Network Monday at 7pm.
In total, 48 student-athletes and administrators from all 15 league institutions participated in the experience, which took place from July 15-17, 2022 and included an immersive journey to one of the centers of the civil rights movement. The group participated in a variety of activities highlighted by a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday attack.
The initiative, conducted in collaboration with the Big Ten and Pac-12, is part of the ACC’s commitment to supporting student-athletes through meaningful educational opportunities, including the area of social justice. The trip was part of the league’s social-justice platform, ACC UNITE.
The social justice experience began in Montgomery with Sheyann Webb-Christburg – author and an in-person eyewitness of the original Bloody Sunday attack – serving as the keynote speaker. The trip continued in Selma at the First Baptist Church, the headquarters for the Dallas County Voters League, which was the student nonviolent coordination committee. The church earned the name, “The Movement Church,” and is where hundreds of students began their days’ long journey from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The trip continued with a march across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge before the group returned to Montgomery to visit a series of landmarks, museums and learning centers.
In Montgomery, the group visited the Interpretive Center at Alabama State University, a historically Black University (HBCU), to learn more about the profound impact that students had on the civil rights movement. The group also spent time at the Civil Rights Memorial Center, the Alabama Department of Archives and History and the award-winning Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Legacy Museum, which provides a comprehensive overview of America’s history of racial injustice – from enslavement to mass incarceration.
EJI Legacy Museum founder and social justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson addressed the group and following his…
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